"This is the Red Line, huh?" said an awestruck Locke who never expected it to feel this peaceful on the other side.

She was wearing a pair of... embarrassing, tight shorts that she had managed to borrow from the captain(with her permission beforehand), and a yellow shirt that she managed to have in the emergency supply bag she was found with...  

The red dry earth somehow managed to support a small town that served as the checkpoint for many pirates, or sailors that managed to come through.
Even though the red soil did not support more than a thousand people, most that live here were happy with their lives, and content with the livings they had.

Locke herself, had just left the boat, due to an embarrassing fact... The ship had no tools or supplies for a blacksmith to use! "I hate to ask for money from the captain this early, but I cant do my job without the right tools..." she thought as she went out, searching to see if there was anyone who had seen the captain.

She searched all the spots where she would think a captain would go.... The bars and taverns had many pirates, but not the woman Locke was looking for.

The stores and markets were bright and colorful, they held trinkets and some "rarer things that the owners tried to hawk off on those who passed through, their wears included things from "far off islands" to selling fish for the others suppers.

Luckily for her, there were a few people that pointed her to the path the blond captain went down, while warning Locke that the woman she was looking for had a dangerous look to her eyes, or that she carried herself like she had a mission to attend to...

As Locke walked up the path, having to be careful at some places where the path got narrow, she couldn't help but wonder "I hope she isn't busy with anything..." Yet Locke couldn't help but think that she knew the exact place where Linnea was... Plus the fact that the world seemed more alive to her made her worry, "Why am I so restless?..."

As she reached the end, she saw the captain with half her body made of ice, yet the ice wasn't melting and she was see through-able, like she was turned to pure ice!

"What is going on?!"asked a scared and slightly curious Locke as she ran towards her captain, slightly off guard by the cold air that surrounded the place the captain was standing at... Small bits of ice were spreading quickly from Linnea's feet, causing the small amount of grass and shrubbery that was around to frost over...

Unknowingly used D-rank Kenbunshoku (5 Haki stamina)

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It truly was unusual, being able to tell where Linnea was... It's almost like she had a 6th sense, but that was impossible. Then again, so was the captain's body at the moment, as the ice had literally replaced her top half with it...

When the captain asked Locke, "How did you find me here?" the only thing she could say was "I.. I don't know... It felt like I knew exactly where you were." And it was the truth, she was feeling things, almost like she knew where every living thing was in a certain radius.  She could feel the ants in the ground about 3 feet under her, she could feel the birds in the air, she could even feel Linnea, like she was a beacon of energy that spoke volumes... how does that happen?

Through just the energy around Linnea, Locke could somehow tell that she was alright, and the captain confirms that by moving her arms, and sending  bolt of ice towards a cracked rock that broke in two when it struck it.. Locke could see the mouth of her captain, who was just like a ice sculpture, twist up into a smile as she answers the question she had asked out of concern "This... I hate the Hie Hie no mi a few days ago and became an Ice Woman. I still can't use its power very well, so I'm training it."
"Ohhhh, one of those Devil Fruits, right?  I'd heard of them before... In fact, I think Foosha village had one stored away for emergency's." Thought Locke out loud, relieved by her captain being okay, and not being hit by the bolt of ice.

"How did you know I was coming up here?" asked a curious Locke, the signs of her curiosity started to show, with her eyes sparkling and her seeming to be on edge. The ability of knowing the existence of the local wildlife around her was starting to make her really nervous, and the more she thought about it, the more it seamed to grow....

"Why can I tell that there are thousands of ants under us?"Asked a fearful Locke, and the question was very familiar to Linnea, like she knew what it was...

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As Locke waited for her answer, her skin started to crawl like thousands of ants had found their way in as she couldn't help but feel like the world was watching her... And it didn't help that things had moved so fast these last few days, what with her being saved from a future of slavery, and then leaving the calmer Blues and crossing the red line two days after joining the Uroboros Pirates...

"It's like you can feel the aura of every living thing around you, correct...?" asked Linnea, as she clearly had some knowledge with that topic. "Yes... If the aura your talking about is like a beacon of energy..." Locke says quietly, still terrified of all the information she was getting from her unknown skill "But how would you know?" She asks, slightly afraid that her captain had hypnosis or psychic powers...

Until Linnea explained to Locke about her having the same powers, called Observation Haki, and that all the Kuja's including Linnea have some reference with the ability... "It must be the only way I found you.... That was the worst mountain path I've ever walked on! and it was so confusing... Before I could sense you."

Linnea's next request caught the greenette of guard, she wanted to teach Locke how to use this... Haki.
Locke herself couldn't answer for a few seconds, worrying what might happen if she didn't, or did learn how to use it... "What would happen if I didn't choose to learn how to use this Haki?" she asks, but the answer Linnea would tell her, wouldn't change her mind, maybe the Haki would make her more useful to the crew, and Linnea in particular(since she is still under a life debt to the captain.)

"I'll do it!" says Locke before being handed the blindfold... What was she supposed to do with this?

"Feel your attacks before they happen? I doubt it." Locke says while putting on the blindfold... "How stupid I must look." Thinks Locke before noticing as she was already being hit with Linnea's fist, right across the jaw.*Smack!!!*

Locke was thrown off her feet from that impact, as she could taste the blood that came slowly from a place from the inside of her mouth that got cut by her own teeth. "Ouch, that smarts.." she thinks as she stands up again, only this time tries to sense Linnea's aura, and predict where she would strike... Locke somehow managed to dodge the next attacks from Linnea, as they got faster, before tripping and falling over a large rock... "Of all the times to be clumsy..."

"Nothing I could do to stop it unless I train..." thought Locke, before agreeing to the training.

"You can only sense living creatures." Linnea had said, finishing this part of her lesson as Locke takes her hand to get up...

After Locke is told "Try to focus only on my aura..." then blindfold came off, and a few more punches came her way. This time, Locke has a little more trouble, since her eye sight had been uncovered...

But she managed to dodge the punches, even when Linnea seemed to move faster than a normal person would. Her aura was so familiar to Locke... but it must be the kinship she feels towards the captain.

They then finish, with Locke happy, and actually able to somewhat control her new Haki ability...
Linnea promised Locke to teach her how to use another bit of Haki. "Color of Armament huh?" thought Locke as they arrived back at the ship... "Shoot, I was going to ask her for a little bit of money. But it's too late now." she suddenly remembers her original goal, but it truly was too late as the sun was starting to set over the Grand Line...

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