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EPISODE 04 : THE PIRATES ARE COMING ( Cat's Out Of The Bag )
A FEW FEET behind Nami, Estrella hops silently down the small steps into the kitchen, whispers of their self-proclaimed captain on their tongues.
"Luffy?" Nami calls into the empty space.
Estrella squints, trying to discern chair from table through the dim lighting.
"D?" Estrella walks over to the straw hat pirate, who is knocked out on top of the kitchen counter.
The two women scour Luffy's condition. Blue stains his lips, and from the empty pot on the stove, Estrella can tell he's eaten something he shouldn't have.
"Disgusting." The brunette represses a gag at the sound of a guttural growl leaving the man's stomach.
Her fingers trace over Luffy's eyes, pressing them forcibly open in an attempt to wake the sleeping bear. To no avail, he continues to snore his heart out on the kitchen island.
Estrella's fingers curl around her blade at the same time Nami opens her mouth to speak.
"Shh, someone's coming." Nami pulls Estrella by the wrist, leaving behind a too-heavy and too-loud Luffy as they cram themselves into a bottom cabinet.
Estrella swallows, eyes darting around the now considerably dimmer and smaller space.
Hands twist their bloody fingers around her body, crawling like bugs up on her face. She can feel their centipede-like touch icing her skin and veins with poison, coating her in muck, begging for her penance. It's so putrid, so —
Oh.
It's warm. Nami's hand is warm. Her fingers curl ever so gently against Estrella's glacial skin, soothing and nurturing her cells into a sweet sort of hibernation.
The orange-haired woman presses a finger to her lips, eyebrows knotting into a beautiful mess of worry. Her eyes bore into Estrella, and she feels herself falling back into the oceanic abyss from where she crawled out of.
( Nami feels like a remnant of Mother Ocean, lulling Estrella into her blood-soiled doom. The waters are too warm to resist ).
The two turn to the small openings of the wooden cabinet, faces pressing together from the lack of space within. Estrella can feel Nami's hair faintly tickling her ear.
From their awkward hiding spot, Estrella and Nami glimpse Kaya's staff muttering and prancing about the kitchen. The head butler, Klahadore, leads the triad, muttering words neither can hear under his breath.
They approach the kitchen, and upon seeing Luffy passed out on the island, Klahadore turns to his subordinates.
"What is he doing here?" The man asks primly, distastefully eyeing the straw hat.
