knee deep
nami
12-12-2023, 11:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2023, 11:21 AM by Nami. Edited 1 time in total.)
A real, true sense of belonging was a feeling Nami always chased. She'd never really found it, not completely, and while she was hopeful such a thing might be here in Tojo-Kai she wasn't overly optimistic. Sure, she always seemed to find the bright side of everything, but she hadn't had a good track record of things sticking. Kuroo being here made things feel better though, and she was grateful for his presence, both in her life and here, right now. "We'll see," she teased back. Her overly cheerful, bubbly personality seemed to grate on people's nerves sometimes. Not that she couldn't be serious when she had to be, but she tended to want to push past the negative things quickly, a trait not everyone cared for. She could easily imagine a day when Kuroo might not be eager for her company, but the reverse seemed an impossibility. No, he was too good and too kind to ever get sick of. His question made her pause, both in thought and action. She'd stopped near the base of another tree, impressive in width, with a thick layer of moss that clung to the trunk like it was part of the tree itself. It climbed higher than she could even see. "Sometimes," Nami admitted, though it made her brow furrow in thought. "It's strange. Back home I felt like I didn't fit in well - my family, and most of my tribe, really, were all.... no-nonsense. I wanted to leave as soon as I could." She wasn't sure there was a better way to describe it. She'd always worried about letting them down, in a way she hadn't felt since. "But now that I'm gone, I find myself missing them and wondering if I'll ever find wolves that value the same things as I do. They were all fishers, like me. It's how we survived." She shrugged, hoping that made sense. You never know what you have until it's gone, isn't that how that saying went? Not that she regretted leaving, but at the same time she wondered what she might be like if she'd toughed it out and stayed. Not that any of that mattered now. |
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