Link Visiting Places: SKY WORL EDITION

[sky_child]

Link had left the bar to make some arrangements--namely, making sure that the door lead him to Skyloft, rather than the Lanayru Caves--or the Lanayru Gorge. Wouldn't that have been confusing to the old dragon, walking out with another human?

Not that the people of Skyloft wouldn't be any less confused by the Link. Skyloft was a pretty tight-knit community for such a large island, and it'd be hard, explaining the other boy in a convincing fashion. He's hoping he can explain it away by saying he's a fan from one of the outlying islands. But he has his doubts about that...

Doubts he will set aside for the time being. It's time to wake the other boy up!

So he's knock, knock, knocking on his door.

"Hey, Link? It's me...Link!"

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[sky_child]

Link turns quickly towards his friend. If he stares at Dovos for too long, he will start to ask questions. And Link does not want to answer questions.

"Sorry. I'm still trying to think of a way to explain you to others..."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

...Hah? Why would that be hard?

"Just say I'm from the surface. Oh, and everyone wears clothes kinda like mine where I'm from, so it's okay."

...Uh. He...yeah, that's gonna be awkward. In the meantime, he takes his soup and starts to drain his bowl.

[sky_child]

"I don't think that's gonna work...not everyone here knows I've been to the surface."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

He stops right in the middle of drinking his soup and gives the other Link a really confused stare, thinking it over.

"...Are you the only one who's been down there?"

[sky_child]

"I'm the only one who's come back."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

...He becomes real quiet and sets his bowl down.

"I won't tell anyone..." That is, if he doesn't want people to know or needs to keep this a secret for some reason.

[sky_child]

"I could say you're from one of the more distant islands. There's plenty of people who live there that never come here. And for all they know, that's where I've been going."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

He nods at this story, apparently satisfied.

"Kay. Do you have forests here? I remember having to tell somebody what a forest was, once."

Which was a really weird moment for him, but to be totally fair, he was explaining this to a Goron.

[sky_child]

He's lived here all his life and he still needs to think about that.

"...we don't."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

Huh, that's just so weird.

"Hmm, least you actually have plants and trees and stuff," he says before he casually starts chugging his soup again.

[sky_child]

He chuckles--and that reminds him, he's hardly taken a bite of his own soup. He eats a few spoonfuls (in a mannerly fashion) before replying, "There's a--"

Well. That's what he is, now, isn't he?

"--a friend of mine who followed me to the surface. He was really shocked there were so many trees. But I think he likes it down there."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

"Hmm." Slurrrrp.

"Do you have a lot of friends?" 'A lot of friends' probably means 'three or four' to him.

[sky_child]

"I guess so, yeah."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

And he looks around the bazaar a little bit, looking at all the people there and smelling the different kinds of food and looking down at his soup before nodding.

"You're lucky." He doesn't say this in a jealous or sad way, just an opinion that he thought he'd point out, but still, ow.

[sky_child]

"Lucky how?" he asks, tilting his head.

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

What does he mean "lucky how" does he just not notice this kind of stuff???

"Everyone always saw me as really weird because...it was really obvious I wasn't like everyone else. Like, I didn't get my fairy partner until right before I left for my journey and...other stuff like that. Little things."

Mido may have been the only one who actually made fun of him, and nobody liked his attitude, but there was still this kind of unsaid "Link is the weird-no-fairy-kid" agreement that everyone had about him and he could just feel it.

No wonder he had to brag to everybody about the Deku Tree summoning him.

"But you're from here and a lot of people know you, right?"

[sky_child]

"Yeah, I am," he says, pushing his bowl of soup to the side. "...I can see what you mean. Sorry if--if you thought I was being insensitive..."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

"...Nooo, you're not. I guess it'd be hard to notice, huh?"

[sky_child]

He nods. "I hadn't met anyone but humans until recently." Pause. "I guess you'd call them Hylians..."

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

"Mmn." Nods, stares at some of the shops.

"But then, everyone else can tell I'm from the forest because of my clothes, so...I dunno. I still go back home sometimes, but everything's so...small now."

[sky_child]

"Does it bother you?"

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

...He isn't quite sure which part he's being asked about.

"Um, being bigger took some getting used to, but I really liked that. And everyone in my village likes me now, they think I'm some cool guy who came in and got rid of all the monsters. Like, they call me Big Bro, stuff like that." But...hmm.

"...I think it's better they don't know. So it's fine." Because they actually like and look up to him now, so he will take that over being the weird kid who everyone thinks killed the Great Deku Tree anyyyyyyyyy day of the week.

[sky_child]

"Ah. I guess I'd find it weird if nobody I knew recognized me." Less weird and more upsetting, maybe? "But if you're okay with it..."

He looks down to his soup and chuckles, thinking about the day of the Wing Ceremony, way back when it seems, and how Zelda worked herself into a panic over nothing. He was fine. He won the race. And then--

And then maybe, if he hadn't...

"So you wanna see the rest of the Bazaar?" he asks, looking at Link suddenly, and with a forced grin.

[ocarina_of_rhyme]

"Yeah!" Um duh do you even have to ask him that???

Link pls.

[sky_child]

Awesome! A distraction. He rises to his feet, giving the Bazaar a good look-over as he decides where to go next.

"Hmm...I only need to go to the potions shop," he says. "I guess...do you want to get your fortune told?"