with knowledge comes great responsibility

[anythingforyou]

[What an absolute ordeal all of that was.

Today was certainly one hell of a day, that's for sure; they've managed to take care of another Guardian and gain it's trust (or at the very least, something resembling it), they managed to find Candice and manage to...well, maybe not get her back in a state that's altogether wanted, but ensure they managed to get her at least into a place where she could possibly regain herself. It will likely be a process, as such things are, but they've done their best, and they should have no regrets.

The center is definitely going to be a welcome reprieve for all of their suffering, at the very least. The Kompot is certainly more than enough to likely get everyone warmed back up and in a stable condition, along with the copious amount of blankets the locals have provided. They've got the time to rest and get ready for their next adventure.

Rest well, ye merry band of travelers. You've earned it.]

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[bloodspent]

[The laugh that gets out of him is quiet, but it's there, and that's what matters.]

Hey, look at you - he's gonna so fuckin' proud of you, you know that?

[hyruglyphics]

[ In truth, he's likely worried now and... well, especially with how he is now to see her again he'll probably do something goofy. But she allows herself the moment of it, her cheeks color, but a laugh coming through her features. ]

Wouldn't that be something.

[bloodspent]

You'd deserve it, you know.

[...]

I'm not just saying that, either, I mean it.

[hyruglyphics]

[ He reassures her of that so soften, but she sort of thickly laughs... ]

We both would, if we actually save this world.

[bloodspent]

Ah, come on, I'm not doing half as much as the rest of you guys are.

[hyruglyphics]

[ She shakes her head. Her response... ]

It's true you don't often enter the thick of it, but you're as considerate as anyone, perhaps more so. [ . . . ] Perhaps it is simply that I spent to much time with Urbosa or Daruk, but I actually find your more crass kindness more comforting than Emmeryn's more saintly demeanor, sometimes.

[ It's a bit of a guilty confession. ]

[bloodspent]

[...Yeah, that's...]

Don't tell her I said this, but- ...Don't get me wrong, Emmeryn's really nice, but I can kind of see why Jupiter kept calling her full of shit to her face? It's not that I don't believe she's genuine, because she is, but she's kinda...out there...

[hyruglyphics]

[ . . . I mean ]

She reminds me of how I always remember my mother. But my mother died when I was six...

[ So like. Before she was overly discerning. ]

[bloodspent]

...It's kind of the same for me, actually. With regards to Emmeryn. I was a bit older when she died, but yeah.

I'm not too sure how much I like that.

[hyruglyphics]

I do wonder [ In part because of Jake ] I might not have my estimation of her age correct. I've been thinking of her as a young looking thirty years or more but... perhaps she's simple mature?

[ Or just.

Strange. It's strange. ]

[bloodspent]

...I don't know, actually. I'm really bad at this sort of thing, but I think that's because my world has a bunch of stuff that can affect that. Apparently Sherry's older than me, but she looks about as old as you are; from what I've heard my dad always looked really, really young, too.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Oh.

... Weird.

Huh. ]

Ah... I see. ... In Hyrule's case I suppose the comparison might be that Zora and Gorons can live far longer than some other tribes...

[bloodspent]

Yeah, Sherry and my dad both had some weird stuff going on with them physically, so that's what caused it, I think. It's weird.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Weird stuff going on with... ]

...Mmm.

[ . . . ]

That really does sound weird. [ She shakes her head. Maybe she and Link are the same, to be here the same a hundred years later... But that really is something else entirely isn't it? She just says is evenly. ]

[bloodspent]

Kinda.

[Anyway.]

I really do think it's gonna be okay, you know. Somehow. I talk a lot of shit about how it's not going to be, but even if we're up against someone with entirely too much God on his side, we're going to figure something out.

[hyruglyphics]

I -- [ Know? No, it's not so much that she knows so much as, ] - have faith.

... Ever was that my role, to have faith. And though I did doubt myself and my destiny for many years, it was in the end rewarded. It would be silly to doubt us now, in this situation.

[bloodspent]

I don't really care for destiny and stuff. At this point it's more that I'm pretty sure we're all too stubborn to die.

[hyruglyphics]

[ I mean what can she say, Destiny is Real. But... that actually sees her laughing a little, shaking her head ]

Perhaps so. We have managed what challenges we've come across so far.

[bloodspent]

We have, yeah.

[He shrugs a bit.]

I wouldn't feel too embarrassed about what happened earlier, if I were you. I'm pretty sure almost all of us have lost our shit at someone so far? It's gonna happen, we're going to argue, and sometimes you can't just sit there and be nice and patient while explaining how fucked up someone's being.

So it's okay. As far as I go, anyway.

[hyruglyphics]

[ She smiles, softly, at that. ]

To be honest... While I overstated things, and I am embarrassed for that, and for the failure of diplomacy, given the same situation I surely would make the same initial criticism. I couldn't help it.

[bloodspent]

Yeah, I don't blame you.

[He's not entirely sure he agrees, but then he wasn't as bothered by all the killing and mindwiping in the first place.]

[hyruglyphics]

[ . . . ]

Link lost his memories too... I forget if I had mentioned that. The Shrine of Resurrection demands that toll upon those it heals. I suppose that's why it sits ill with me, every time.

[bloodspent]

Oh.

[There's no polite way to say "that explains a lot", but that...explains a lot.]

How's he doing now?

[hyruglyphics]

Over the course of his journey toe free the Divine Beasts and to find a way to defeat Calamity Ganon, he was able to journey to ... places we had gone earlier, in our travels. I watched him, and he regained much of his memory during that time.

[ But she did still doubt him at the end, just a little. Something she still feels a little bad about. ]

[bloodspent]

That's good, at least.

Sorry about making you talk about all of this shit, by the way. I get that it's a lot.