Jade stiffed a bit at the question, but quickly relaxed "Y-yeah. But I've never left my home until I was imprisoned a month ago" she said, hoping Nikolai hadn't caught her stumble. While it was true she had never left home until that day... where she [i]considered[/i] home, well, that changed drastically about 10 years ago, then again 3 years ago. However, that knowledge was strictly on a need-to-know basis. And no one ever needed to know.

Suddenly, something occured to Jade "Wait a second. You said "Marineford". Why in the hell would you go to the Marine Headquarters to start a pirate crew? You wouldn't, so why bring it up? Unless... You were a marine, weren't you? Stationed at HQ? How the hell did you end up way out here?" She asked, piecing the puzzle together.