Feeling long winded

Oct 02, 2009 19:39

[Waking is much like dreaming.

[Consciousness is a deep fog of sounds and shadowy images. It is made of the faces she has seen, yesterday and tomorrow; the smell of battles won and lost; the ghost of tears on her cheeks or lips on her mouth.

["Brother! No!" " ...my hour of need..." "I've been waiting for you..." "...you are a true hero!" "Our ( Read more... )

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tehnrija October 3 2009, 19:40:35 UTC
[This was the castle the young Link had mentioned upon Zelda's arrival some time ago. Its halls and chambers provided the Spy with much intrigue since she chose to do a little investigating. She was told no one lived in the castle anymore, so this couldn't be considered "breaking and entering", could it? So far the boy's words ring true; this place is empty.

She lingers outside of the throne room, an area she's yet to explore, close, but out of sight.]

(ooc: Sorry I didn't catch this yesterday. If this tag is made of confused fail, just smack me and I'll edit it.)

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regnant_zelda October 5 2009, 19:06:58 UTC
[She can feel--much more than she hears--movement near her. She's too absorbed in her thoughts to lift her head, but she glances up momentarily.]

Who's...[Zelda wonders if she should bother finishing the sentence.]...there?

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tehnrija October 8 2009, 02:18:51 UTC
[Detected once more? Tsk tsk, Zelda, and you call yourself a Spy? Best not to draw the gun this time, but she'll still remain cautious.

Sheik enters the throne room, standing tall, regarding the princess with a cool, unflinching gaze. He lingers close to the doorway, should he require a quick escape.]

Pardon my intrusion. I meant no harm.

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regnant_zelda October 9 2009, 19:08:11 UTC
[Zelda feels a cold shock when she sees Sheik--irrepressibly, she half sobs, half moans as images bombard her. This person--she's this person--Sheik--yet, she remembers...talking to him? Her? There's more than one. But, she knows, she is this person before her, because she can remember...looking at someone, and talking to someone with that voice, with those clothes.

[She presses a hand to her mouth, shaking, trying to remember who she is, and through all of the memories, Zelda is ashamed.]

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tehnrija October 13 2009, 05:39:29 UTC
[Well, that reaction wasn't one Sheik would expect. His expression softens a bit in concern for the stranger before him.]

Are you all right, miss?

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regnant_zelda October 14 2009, 19:52:19 UTC
[That voice, however, was not hers. She latches on to that, trying to tug back control. She inhales...

[And breathes out her confusion, as best as she can.]

I am...fine. Who are... you?

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tehnrija October 16 2009, 21:51:00 UTC
[Is she really, though?]

No one of importance - a curious passerby. One of the more newer tourists of this fine land, you could say.

[If you could call it that. Hyrule's nice, from what Sheik's seen so far. Beautiful, even. He'd appreciate it more if his little visit hadn't come at such an inconvenient time.]

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regnant_zelda October 17 2009, 14:57:04 UTC
[Lies, her mind tells her. She can't pinpoint it...but...He had to be from Hyrule? He? She? Images of this person came as a storm--he was not new. Zelda's focus is clearer now.]

You came here of free will?

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tehnrija October 17 2009, 18:52:14 UTC
[She, beneath the surface, beneath the mask taken out of part necessity, part free will. There's something a bit different about this one. Lacking the blessing of the Goddesses, there's a distinct lack of pointed ears - Sheik isn't Hylian. The clothes he wears are out of place as well, coming from a far different point of time's flow.]

Not exactly. I seem to have taken a wrong turn and lost my way.

[He takes a few slow, nonchalant steps into the room as he speaks, testing the proverbial waters. Would this young woman label him an intruder?]

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regnant_zelda October 21 2009, 00:27:51 UTC
[Zelda regards his approach with distant curiosty--yet partially aware she is in no state to defend herself.

[She doesn't know exactly what to say about that. Something tells her that is not how she arrived in this place--for it wasn't where she was born--but Zelda doesn't know what to point out.]

I do not recall how I came here. I simply woke from a long sleep.

[She's unsure why she tells him this--he can't offer her answers--yet it makes her happy to voice even a small bit of her confusion.]

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tehnrija October 21 2009, 00:41:33 UTC
So Sleeping Beauty has left her tower?

[It's an allusion he's making; Sheik thinks it's one she'll notice. He smiles a bit beneath the mask - a friendly smile that catches in his eyes.]

You'll be happy to know no maze of thorns or malicious dragons await you beyond the castle walls.

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regnant_zelda October 21 2009, 00:57:52 UTC
[She stares. Zelda has many memories of innumerable things, but he is not making sense to her. She racks her head for myths and legends, but nothing comes to mind.]

Why would I suspect dragons to come here? Is Volvagia awakened?

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tehnrija October 21 2009, 01:18:53 UTC
Not that I know of. [He knows no Volvagia, but decides to play along. A few more steps are taken, gradually closing the distance between him and the princess.]

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regnant_zelda October 21 2009, 21:05:57 UTC
[He's standing below the dias now, in front of her. Zelda grows uncomfortable--as well as suspicious. She knows that these feelings of doubt are unlike her, but she still thinks: Is he trying to remove my guard? He has yet to ask my name--does he already know who I am?]

Are you called Sheik?

[She asks the question to, in turn, throw his guard off.]

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tehnrija October 21 2009, 21:15:26 UTC
[He'll stop there, Zelda, don't worry. The name she calls stops him either way. He's surprised - vaguely uncomfortable, even - as this isn't the first time someone's said the name without him giving a proper introduction.]

I am. It seems to be a common name here. [More common than he'd like it to be.]

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regnant_zelda October 21 2009, 21:27:47 UTC
[Is it? That's news to her. But then, of course... Hm. She stops thinking on the subject.]

Do you know my name, then?

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