Week 1.

[azumods]

WEEK 1. As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning. Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim. It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being. However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes... Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good. CURRENT LOCATION: VEILSTONE CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week one of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend! Feel free to investigate the city as you see fit this week; we ask only that you try to stagger investigations and be mindful of what's already been checked. If you wish to investigate, notify the mods in your comment subject for your top-level and we'll get on it as soon as possible!]

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[hyruglyphics]

No, I have not been able to make anything more than educated guesses so far. But I suppose is is only the second night.

[ . . . ]

Either way, it is not familiar.

[bloodspent]

Kinda disconcerting, isn't it?

[At least, he thinks it is.]

[hyruglyphics]

I can't deny that it is. [ She takes up a seat neat to him, or well, rather, she silently asks for permission in the form of glancing there and then looking at him. If she doesn't get it, she won't. The Beldum floats behind her still. She glances up at the sky and reaches for it... ]

But perhaps it's the wanderlust in me, I find it a bit exciting right now.

[bloodspent]

[Go right ahead and sit, he doesn't mind. He's still kind of weird about her general stance on not killing people before they kill you - even Sherry understood that - but you know what, there's no one around and she seems pretty okay.]

Yeah? Did you just not get out much before, or...?

[hyruglyphics]

Just the opposite, actually! I've traveled to every corner of Hyrule at some time or another. [ . . . Less than Link, but definitely a lot of it. She shifts here, sitting down and folding her legs in, her arms around them. She hums, still looking at the stars. ] I'm not tired of it, of course... but seeing a new horizon entirely makes me want to learn more about this land.

[bloodspent]

[That seems to please him in some small way, really.]

Good to hear it. The people who get wanderlust real bad are either the people who've been everywhere, or the people who've been nowhere at all, and that second one's just kind of sad if you ask me.

[hyruglyphics]

[ She thinks about that other princess Yuri mentioned, the one who had never left the castle. And in thinking about it, she nods gently. ]

The world and the wilds both have so much to offer, it seems a shame to me to not travel around, and see what you can see. [ She hesitates, and then smiles at the sky ] ... The sky is very vast, after all.

[bloodspent]

Most of my traveling's been due to my job, but it was definitely a perk and not a drawback.

[He's gotten to see a lot of the world that way, for better or worse.]

I'm guessing you've got a bunch of constellations that you're looking out for - any you particularly like, or...?

[hyruglyphics]

[ In which I make up constellations ]

In this sky, or in the one from Hyrule?

[ She laughs either way. For his job, huh? she makes a noise of agreement and says, ]

There's one low in the sky in Hyrule we call the Wind Fish. I've always thought it was pretty.

[bloodspent]

[That gets a soft noise out of him, vaguely approving.]

Sounds it. We've got a bunch that are pretty easy to find - Orion's pretty distinctive and easy to look out for, I've always liked that one.

[hyruglyphics]

[ Orion... ] What form does Orion have?

[bloodspent]

He's...from mythology, he's a person. Hunter, I'm pretty sure.

[hyruglyphics]

A mythical hunter... I wonder what his story was.

[ She tuts a little. ]

Supposedly, the wind fish was once a deity who lived in dream until he awoke and took to the skies.

[bloodspent]

Was the dream a good thing, or a bad thing?

[...Or was it neither. Ambiguous thing?]

[hyruglyphics]

The story isn't clear, other than to remind people that all dreams must, eventually, end.

[bloodspent]

One of those cautionary things, then. Don't get so hung up on the dreams you forsake reality?

[hyruglyphics]

[ Looking back over at him, ]

That's how I always understood it, at least.

[bloodspent]

Makes sense. I don't really have too much time for stories like that, haven't for a while, but I used to like them when I was a little kid.

[hyruglyphics]

I heard them from mother and from Urbosa when I was a little girl. What interest I kept in them over time... well, legends are the leftovers of history, and they are also the seeds of faith. Both of those were important to what I needed to accomplish, andso they lingered.

[bloodspent]

Oh, yeah? And what is it you were accomplishing? If you don't mind answering.

[hyruglyphics]

I needed to awaken a power destined to me by my bloodline, and so I prayed to the ancient spirits and gods, to try to quicken the process. [ Err... ] ... The power to seal the Calamity.

[ It's... bizarre, to have to explain that. ]

[bloodspent]

[God, he doesn't have much patience for bloodlines and legacies.]

Did you manage it?

1/2

[hyruglyphics]

[ A very complicated look comes over her face, for just a moment... ]

[hyruglyphics]

[ But then she shakes her head and smiles. No need to dwell on... on all that. ] I did! I played my part and in the end, we were victorious.

[bloodspent]

Hey, good for you.

[And that sounds actually genuine, not sarcastic; seriously, good job, Zelda.]

Saved the world and everything, I'm guessing?