She blinked in response only once before answering in all seriousness. "I haven't seen anyone else in sometime either, but that was before I awoke in this place. That Shichibukai, Bartholomew Kuma, he sent me to a place called Tequila Wolf, from which I only recently escaped before finding myself incarcerated again."

But she had caught the confused sound in his voice; she just didn't fully appreciate the meaning. "Surely you figured out Luffy's message, Brook? The one from the newspaper." She made a casual gesture to her own left shoulder. "It was written on his arm."