Anyways... there'd always be some unmarried noblewoman lingering around the mistletoe who you just had to suffer a pinching of cheeks for, for candy."

any work done really.

grace as someone could.

"...it's been... uh..." Sabo wheezes, digging an elbow into Ace's gut to avoid being strangled at least, yet not shoving the older off. "...a few weeks?"

Time never was his strong suit. Certainly not before his memories came back to him nor after. It was a wonder he got +

stroll.

"I wouldn't worry too much? All the ghosts I've met were real people so... I guess that could be concerning?"

adventures so far. It had been a long, long time and Robin sure helped me in playing catch up some, especially given the time crunch you all had with the Dressrosa situation. Understandable and all that."

the top over someone else touching that silly little-

"Robin and Koala got along swimmingly, well, swimmingly on Koalas end in the literal, less literal on Robin's given the fruit business. Regardless, the girls were all happy to have each other and it was interesting to hear about all of Luffy's +

still hadn't decided if he hated that or not.

Even as he's half certain the far distant figure out is just another apparition of his mind, finding no reason to slow as he makes his way to the graves.

"I guess moving hats and stuff is fine if it's yours right? People are going to be grumpy though."

memoriam.

"...I'm sorry I'm late, I know I said I'd be sooner," He sighs to the wind as if he could hear it all, though sometimes he did, ever in that left ear like a voice.

Sometimes more. Cowering and fearful but apologetic and choking.

It had gotten worse since eating the fruit but Sabo +

safe haven kept near secret from most of the world.

Missions and life had taken Sabo from it all, from visiting as often as he would have liked since the last time he'd been able to trudge up the shoreline and the grassy, flowered hills to the peak...

... where two graves lay in silence and +

mis-matched eyes roam the little plaza they've ended up on the edge of, essentially, in their near collision. "I've heard the castle is an interesting place and the noble districts tout finery and whatnot."

Not a peep of anything else.

"I'm writing a book, you see, about sightseeing."

Not a lie.

specific you might be after for lunch?"

your name, Cat Burglar Nami of the Strawhat Pirates."

come to rest on Nami with a quiet amusement. Good on them both he wasn't sentimental at all to the hat itself, but more the goggles held on it's satin band.

"Last I checked I was Luffy's brother. And yup, she was lovely company for late night conversations when one can't rest well. You live up to +

either, not about to out himself to candidly. What was the saying? Lying by omission? So long as he never claimed much of anything, there wasn't technically a way to pin it on him.

"By the by, I believe I do owe you thanks for Luffy's care a few years back. If you're not busy, lunch? My treat."