Adventure 3- Back to Zero

[weakahoshi]

[Shirahoshi's been having bad dreams. Scary dreams. Dreams of being hurt and people talking and doing things to her and it makes her feel sick to her stomach. In the dreams, she wonders if she's losing something of herself, or betraying some sort of trust she'd been given. But now, waking up, she isn't sure what that trust would even be, or why she's even wondering about it.

The feeling lingers though. It makes her uncomfortable even as she blinks open her eyes.

And the world around her is HUGE. She must have been taken somewhere else again, because Luceti did not tower over her like this even though it was intimidating at first. There are massive houses, bigger than the castle in some ways. And the people! They must be giants! Some of them even tower over her, and no one has ever done that before.

But if she's been moved, that means she isn't where Luffy-sama and the others are anymore either. Even the new friends she met, who knows where they'd be? She's all alone again, though she has her journal and the bubbly coral. Shirahoshi doesn't think to check on them yet. She's too busy panicking to notice that the fountain behind her looks just the same as the one in Luceti, or that the buildings have exactly the same facades.

Someone please come comfort her as she breaks down in normal, human-sized mermaid tears.]

Comments

[toujourschatte]

[Well then, this is interesting. That is certainly Shirahoshi but she seems quite a bit smaller than normal. Though, as far as Robin knows, her distress is typical. Still, have Robin-cat trotting up to offer some comfort.]

[runawayhoshi]

[Oh no what is this giant scary animal?]

EEEEEEEEEK!

P- please don't hurt me, hairy black thing!

[toujourschatte]

[Robin cocks her head. Is this fear of cats really so prevalent? She writes in the dirt with a soft paw]

I won't hurt you

[And then because she's a troll Robin adds]

but you do look delicious, Princess-chan

[cryinghoshi]

[What do you even say to that? A giant hairy thing the size of baby whales walking up to you and telling you you look delicious?

Shirahoshi doesn't know. She just breaks down, pleading.]

I don't wanna be eaten, whatever-you-are-sama!

[toujourschatte]

My tastes don't really run toward mermaids or Fishmen.

[And because the princess is distressed]

I'm Robin. I've been shifted. As have you, it seems.

[weakahoshi]

[The giant mermaid eating hairy beast is writing more words on the ground, and that's enough to catch Shirahoshi's curiosity. She breathes a sigh of relief and wipes her tears as she reads the creatures lack of preference for mermaids, then her eyes widen at the rest.]

R- Robin-sama? I don't understand. Is this what you look like when you get bigger?

[toujourschatte]

It's just a Malnosso experiment. I'm not normally a cat at all.

[She thinks a moment]

And you are generally much larger than this.

[weakahoshi]

[Shirahoshi looks relieved at to hear read this. She sets her hands on the edge of the fountain, leaning out towards Robin eagerly.]

S- so you think they just made me littler? So I can be part of the village now?

[toujourschatte]

Who can say?

[She thinks for a moment]

Maybe *they* wish to eat you?