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Nami has the watch tonight.
Zoro’s here too, technically. There’s always at least two people up, just in case, to watch each other’s backs and keep an eye out for what the other’s missed, but right now, he’s just here on a technicality.
She knows he'll wake up in an instant if something’s wrong, so she lets him sleep.
The wind is dead around them. The sails hang limp and the sea is a mirror surface. It reflects the waning moon and the star-speckled sky, making it seem like they’re floating in space.
She couldn’t possibly miss an ship approaching, like this. It’s safe. The air is warm.
For once, it’s quiet, and she doesn’t want to disturb it.
Climbing to the roof of the crow’s nest, she lies back and looks at the stars.
When she was little, Bellemere would sit with her and Nojiko in the garden some late summer nights and point out the constellations. Back home, she can name them all.
It’s a measure of how far from home she is, that most of these are unknown to her.
She traces shapes in the sky above, mapping out a different sea, and she wonders at the names for them, wonders if they’re gods or beasts, heroes or maidens.
Robin will know, most likely. Maybe she’ll ask tomorrow.
For now, Nami watches a star shoot across the vast, uncharted celestial ocean, and she is home.