Δvoice + action to the MurderessΔ

[forhylia]

[Link has long been back on his schedule of stirring in the early hours before dawn.

And just when the sun is beginning to creep across the sky, the wind comes. Bustled and nearly knocked off his feet, he stares in awe as the petals it carried float gently onto the deck. There does not seem to be anything special about them...

He tears out his journal, nearly dropping it when he hears laughter lilting from the pages. He waits a moment before speaking.]

This is the Murderess. How farspread was that wind just now? Did it carry black petals as well?

Comments

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[thethundersaid]

We don't need the distraction of people who can't take care of themselves in any case.

[Though ...] Do you have experience fighting on water?

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[forhylia]

[An embarrassing admission, but...]

I... do not. I had never seen the ocean at all before coming here. The seas of Hylia vanished centuries ago.

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[thethundersaid]

... all of them vanished? [Sasuke hasn't spent much time on the ocean before this, but at least there is an ocean.]

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[forhylia]

Not overnight. [A small note of amusement in his voice.] They dried up. It is only desert, where the waters once rested.

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[thethundersaid]

Your world sounds like a strange one. Does the landscape change like that often?

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[forhylia]

No. It is a corrupt and ruined place. My people must live in the sky, now, as the surface has become so thick with evil.

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[thethundersaid]

Evil? [He knew it would be impossibly naive to think that any other worlds might be less corrupt than his own, but it was still something, to know that so many unfailingly were.]

How did that happen?

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[forhylia]

Many things. The failings of man, the rise of a demon so powerful the Goddess herself descended upon us. It was she who was able to save us.

[Where Link had failed. Is that a sore spot? Oh yeah it is.]

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[thethundersaid]

... I thought that woman who was here before was your goddess. She had the power to restore your entire world?

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[forhylia]

She is, yes. She made the choice to bring her people into the sky, where they would be protected from the horrors of the Surface.

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[thethundersaid]

[The thought of that kind of power is incredible, and Sasuke had been in the middle of experiencing some incredible powers before he'd arrived here. He glances out at the ocean, the seeming-endless expanse of it and their slow crawl across this world, and has to wonder how useful such power might have been here.]

Sounds like an actual goddess. [It takes a moment before he remembers that that probably wants clarification --] We had a legend like that, but she was a regular person in the end.

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[forhylia]

Hm. Hylia appeared as such. The way she was in this world was the same as when she came to us at home. It... is not a legend. Not exactly. I saw her do it with my dying breath.

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[thethundersaid]

Your -- [He blinks.] -- dying breath?

Then you're dead in your world as well?

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[forhylia]

Does that make the two of us? [Link turns to eye Sasuke, raising his eyebrows slightly.] Yes, I am dead. Cut down by the demon Hylia was then forced to defeat in my stead.

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[thethundersaid]

No -- I didn't -- [Even mean to say that, something he realizes a moment late; it's said, and the truth is --] ... I'm not the one who is dead. At least as far as I know.

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[forhylia]

My apologies. [He offers Sasuke a slight nod, now realizing what he meant.] I do understand that I am not the only one to come here who had passed, though.

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[thethundersaid]

[The last person to offer him condolences on Itachi's death was Obito-turned-Tobi-as-Madara. It's bizarre to hear it now, and with a sincerity of a very different kind, but he accepts it if only to glaze it over, avoid discussing it.]

Time and death seem to be of little power here.

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[forhylia]

Without a doubt. [Link nods once again in agreement.] It forces me to wonder what will become of us when we are returned home.

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[thethundersaid]

[That was -- a thought Sasuke hasn't entertained yet. It's easier to make things simple, here; find the jewel, use it to return home, complete the mission he'd set himself. But if some of the people here are dead, who is to say what remains at home?

His voice is thoughtful when he speaks, expression distant, contemplating possibilities.]

... those whose crewmates have vanished assume they just go back to their worlds as they are.