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Appointment Post / Voicemail / All That Jazz

Smoker can't come to the journal right now because he's out not!arresting pirates so leave a message.

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Just be glad they even care that much for now I guess.

[Huffs and drifts the smoke from his cigars higher into the air.] Now try a breeze.

Guess I should be. This place changes everyone. [Lupin would think on it, and try to understand. He had a lot of it to do, so long as he was able to keep his thoughts straight.

Lupin glanced upward at the drifting smoke, and quirked a small smile when he realized what Smoker was doing. Air currents, and what Smoker ultimately did best. Inwardly he was glad that he had a friend made of such incorporeal stuff.

He tried to focus in on the currents again, letting feel and sight guide him. Though his concentration was compromised, he could feel Kipinn's subtle guidance; he managed a small breeze and watched the smoke drift off course.]

...Interesting.

I can also keep adding thin layers to it, like snowflakes. Kid stuff really.

Huh. Should have figured that you'd be able to do that.

[They were close to the same age, but Smoker never revealed when, exactly, he ate the Devil Fruit. It must have been when he was fairly young, Lupin imagined. To have that much control, he would have needed to work at it for as long as Lupin had maintained his career.

Lupin tried again, and got a stronger gust this time. The smoke swirled, and the thief chuckled.]

It takes a bit of concentration, and that's been hard lately. Guess I've had too little to do.

Well, now you've got something to concentrate on and they can't even get mad at you for it right?

It does help. I've been working at it for a month without success.

...part of that time they wouldn't let me out of the house. I had to open every window in the building to get any proper breeze.

Well we can always go to the beach or mountains if you need to catch more wilderness. To... get in touch with the spirit or whatever.

[You can tell he only has the vaguest inkling of what he's talking about.]

[Lupin sighed wearily.]

I need to get out into the wilderness more in general. Been getting stir crazy with nothing to do. But, not the mountains. Changes in air pressure right now...are unpleasant.

[Nods his head.]

Understood. Ocean then?

[Nod.]

Ocean. Yes. I need to get out there with Keimi anyway, it might help us with the water magic.

...this is so weird. Six months ago I would have scoffed at this idea.

Yeah... I still can't use the spirits. Too weird for me. I mean, I have a devil fruit and all, but it's not like I actually made a pact with the devil in the fruit or anything.

I understand. The Grand Line seems to work on a different set of physics sometimes. It's weird for me too, because it's completely counter intuitive. Working too hard at it has the opposite effect.

...still, you are always saying that you should do things to make you stronger. Do you think that trying would help you? You are made of smoke.

[That was actually the chief reason why Lupin didn't ask for Smoker's aid during the Apep debacle. With Saori, a storm god, involved in the mess there was no way for Lupin to be sure that Smoker would be okay.]

You have to just let the winds flow then? Sounds a little like sailing.

[Nods his head.] I do, or I wouldn't have offered to help. [He's not that much of a masochist after all.]

[A small laugh.] Yeah, it is a little like sailing, isn't it?

I knew you'd understand, Captain. It will be much easier to figure this out by working with you.

Thanks. [For everything.]

No problem Lupin.

Don't be so ready to write off the progress you've made this far. [SMALL NOD. It's like the biggest sign ever that Lupin's actually accomplished something in trying not to go insane with restlessness here. Even if it's in tsun-tsun speak.]

Just keep at it.

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