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Someone's a bit restless...

Woman! [The voice is a snarl, but not altogether threatening. He appears to be pacing in frustration, and his eyes are narrowed intensely.]

How long will you insist on keeping me in this place? I am tired of these games; did you not think I could handle myself there? Hmph! [He perches somewhere high, his spear leaning back against his shoulder. He growls a bit as he looks around, every muscle tense.]

Despite how you lord over this place, I refuse to bow to you; only arrogance would make you think you can contain a warrior of Shandora!

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[Calgara... It's been a very long time since this Robin tucked you away in her heart and relegated you once again to the annals of history. There are many things to say, and no words to adequately say them.

So she'll smile- at least that comes easier now, two years later.]

Honestly, can't people just let dead men sleep anymore?

[He may or may not catch a glint of mirth in her eyes. She really is glad to see him, even if for a brief moment.]

[The quite familiar voice gives Calgara pause - It had been years since their paths had crossed...and perhaps it had been better, in the long run, that they had parted. But when he raises his head and regards her, it's with a slight grin that's nothing but fond. He had only one regret in his life, and she was far from one of them. He laughs, a bark of a sound, and hops down to the ground with surprising grace. His anger, for the moment, is stayed.]

Robin. Nico Robin. In this place, death has little power. And I am restless, as any ghost might be! [His eyes gleam a bit as he nears her.] It has been some time.

Aye, it has. [He has no idea how cold and lonely the years have been. A blessing, perhaps, that he'd disappeared before they reached Sabaody. He was spared the agony of watching the crew fracture, one by one, in a matter of moments. Spared the guilt of only hearing rumors of their captain's painful defeat, of wondering if Luffy still lived.]

Have you found a place you'd like to haunt?

[Not that many of them would be any better than mere headspace. Most worlds are small, enclosed somehow. Few afford the freedom to take to the sea and explore the distant horizons.]

[Calgara laughs a bit, dry and amused. It's all he can do to deal with the distant ache he feels. Having lost so much in his life; his wife and daughter, his dearest friend, and of course, Robin and the rest of the crew when he'd been there with them...it was either laugh or get angry, and he had no reason for anger in this moment.]

I have not; I would not be satisfied by a meager existence as a ghost. [He grins at her, his sharp eyes surprisingly amused. And really, it's true; it would be hard to contain such a personality.]

What about you? Have you found a home? It seems we are destined to be robbed of such places, you and I... [It's a bit sad; they had indeed both lost their beloved homelands...]

Mm, seems we are. I have a place to run, but it isn't somewhere I'd consider a home.

[She's still very new, has more enemies than friends, Luffy's a child, and hanging out with a Marine.

Oh, and her Devil's Fruit Ability doesn't work, there.

Calgara's grin puts her at ease, though. Robin reaches out and traces her fingers over the blood red marks on his shoulder. It's warm, definitely not something ethereal.]

At least we have warm memories to keep us company.

Home. [Calgara narrows his eyes a bit; it's a point of bitterness deep in his soul that he's never been able to regain his homeland from the invading Skypieans.] I have no home. [And it is remarkably true, even here. He looks over at her, dark eyes ever intense, with their strange dichotomy of wildness and civilization.]

It is as if memories are all that I have here. [His smile fades a bit; not all of his memories are pleasant, though the ones that are, he keeps close to his heart, and guards them as jealously as he had once guarded a certain golden bell. He does not move away when he feels her touch his arm, but looks at her hand calmly. It's soothing, in a strange sort of way. He normally did not care for human contact outside of his family and a few choice people...she'd been one such individual.]

Maybe we will be able to meet again one day, somewhere, even if we do not immediately know one another.

[Robin chuckles.]

It would be an adventure.

[And she just loves adventures.]

[And here's a very timid, very giant mermaid, chewing on her nails a little. Confrontation really is not her thing.]

M- maybe if you calm down, sh- she'll listen to you a little better? It's always best to talk things through, right?

Hah! [The laugh is more of a snort, derisive at the very idea.] She thinks she is being generous by allowing me to speak out here, but I am tired of these bonds!

[He regards the curious looking creature with some interest though.] You are not human nor Shandorian. I have heard stories of people like you, but I only thought them legend!

[Shirahoshi hugs her fin to her chest, shyly.]

How could you tell?

[Beat]

Oh, right. [She laughs nervously.] That was a silly thing to say, wasn't it?

[Calgara regards her for a moment, wondering if she's really just asked her question, then suddenly, he laughs, a loud bark of a sound that was surprisingly jovial.]

Do not be afraid; I do not have a desire to fight you, little girl. But I have not seen your kind around here before!

[And because she's Shirahoshi, she pokes at his mane of hair with one slender finger.]

I haven't seen anyone as bushy as you before, either! Haa~ The world is so big. I hope someday my people won't be so afraid to come and experience it.

Ha! You will not meet another man like me in all this Grand Line! [He grins a bit deviously, his wild appearance emphasizing that he was not from a place as civilized as what some people would think.]

My people once feared those not from our island. From what I hear, that has changed in the four hundred years since I died. Perhaps it is for the best that we have opened our homes to those who need it.

[Shirahoshi pulls back with a gasp, eyes wide.]

Y- you're dead?

[Is it gross that she touched a ghost? Shirahoshi isn't sure, so she'll forestall panicking. For now.

Then she has a thought.]

D- do you know my mother?

[She'd totally not freak out about touching a dead person if its her mother.]

Ha! No, I am alive! If I were dead, I would have long ago returned to the home of my ancestors, and resided in the trees there. But to many, I have been dead for a long time, so they tend to be startled when they come across me.

[He regards the mermaid for a moment, confused by her question.]

Your mother is dead? I do not know her.

[And here we see Shirahoshi trying very hard to hold it together. She nods and sniffles a little bit, the pain of it and Hody's betrayal still raw, even after all these years.]

S- someone wanted to start a war w- with the humans. Mm- mother wanted us to live in peace. So. They...

[She stops there. He can probably figure out the rest.]

[Calgara's eyes change subtly; this mermaid has proven herself no threat, and indeed, some of the deities worshipped by his people resembled such creatures. But when she starts to cry over the loss of her family, he understands in a deep way.]

I...understand your loss. Much is lost in war when the stakes are high. [How many of his people have died fighting the Skypieans? How many people suffered in four hundred years of warfare? His own children, grandchildren...]

[Crap, crap, crap, she's not supposed to be a crybaby anymore! She promised!

The funny bushy... human? Do humans usually have wings? ...He looks distraught, too. Oh, no! Is it because of what she said?]

B-but it's turned out okay, now! I mean... P- please don't be upset!

[It's kind of impressive how tiny a voice can come out of so huge a person.]

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