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[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Characters: Tetra (stop_calling_me_zelda) and OPEN
Setting: All over the place
Format: Prose, will switch
Summary: Tetra got mail! Blah blah more words
Warnings: Animus.

Mailroom - Floor 78

She was just a kid but she’d seen a lot more than anyone her age from her world (in her time besides Link) would normally see. And what she’d seen so far here in the tower was another thing entirely. Tetra was getting used to it all. And then this.

The young pirate sat on the floor of the mailroom, eyes empty as she stared at the contents of the package that had been in her mailbox. Pieces of shattered wood that she could recognize as being from her ship and parts of the sail that she remembered yelling at her crew to fix. And then the flag, her Jolly Roger… the one her mother had flown and covered in blood. Her mind flashed to the faces of her crew, those sweet and often stupid but loyal men. Her crew who had chased down the Helmaroc King to try to save her.

Ten minutes later, Tetra was standing. Screaming. Less like the scared girl that people would find curled up against Zelda at night and more like the bossy brat from the Great Sea.

“WHO DID IT!? WHO THINKS THEY’RE BEING FUNNY!?”

Dorm Floors

Tetra was just, simply, looking around each floor as she headed to Zelda room. She had the remains of her ship in a crudely made bag and didn’t want to stash them in her room. She spent less time there than anywhere else so it made sense to try to find somewhere else to hide them. This was her ship and she wouldn’t let anyone else touch the remains of it.

Random other places (your choice, anything goes)

Tetra can be found elsewhere in the tower throughout the day, a short curved sword at her waist. It was one she had arrived with but made small enough for her to use. Armed? Damn right she is but not just with a sword. She was looking for an excuse to practice her magic too. Her package had woken her up from what had felt like a daze. Maybe she was in the library, reading up on more magic or swimming in the lake or on the beach.

Comments

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer waves at the child as he arrives on the beach, holding a giant severed dog's head.]

Hey, little lady! Practicing your pirate arts here?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[Just quietly looking towards him and eying that severed head before swimming up to the edge of the water and plops down in the sand.]

Naah, jus' havin' gone swimming in a long time.

[puppy_lancer]

I see. And you're enjoying it, right?

[He looks up at the clouded sky.]

...Might start raining sometime. Be careful, okay?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Oh yeah, definitely. It smells like the real ocean so it's nice. I can almost pretend that I'm back home.

[Oh ew, you had to remind her of that?]

Yeah, I should probably stop soon 'cause'a that.

[puppy_lancer]

[He looks at the clouds again, and then steps into the water himself.]

...On second hand, the rain's probably gonna take a while. Mind playing a bit before it starts?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[In answer, Tetra only splashes water at him.

Yes. Playing is an okay idea. Especially considering the whole mail thing and it's a nice distraction.]

[puppy_lancer]

[He laughs, and then splashes some water back at her. Of course, given his greater strength, it's a much bigger splash than hers.]

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[She laughs and sputters before splashing back at him again.]

No faaaaair! You're bigger!

[puppy_lancer]

[He lets her splash him.]

Oh come on, not my fault! I just grew up this way!

But being small also has advantages. Let's see you figure them out!

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[She sticks her tongue out at him.]

Yeah, it kinda does.

[What's this? She's diving for his legs! Deep breath now!]

[puppy_lancer]

[With a squawk, he goes head over heels into the water. He flails, trying to get to his feet. He only manages to to it after drinking down a few gulps of sea water.]

N-nice trick.

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[He won't have a hard time getting back up, Tetra's still pretty small and she's laughing too hard at having surprised him.]

I guess bein' small can be pretty useful.

[puppy_lancer]

You were even better than I thought. Let me guess. Plenty of other pirates fell to these same tricks?

mailroom

[notagiraffe]

Taiki had seen Tetra and though he was really sad about the gauntlets he had been given, and feeling more and more sick as people pulled out awful gifts from their mailboxes he saw Tetra and made his way over.

He stopped as she shouted, and his eyes went wide, scared. But Tetra was nice and so he spoke up in a tiny voice. "Are... are you alright Tetra?"

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Not gonna cry. Not gonna cry. Not gonna- yeah, totally crying a little and clutching at the remains of her ship and biting her lip to quiet herself.

"My ship... Look what they've done to it..!"

Her ship, what was most likely blood stains from her crew. The ship her mother had built and captained, entrusted to her only child.

[notagiraffe]

It smelled strongly of blood but Tetra was crying and so instead of moving away Taiki got closer, wrapping his arms around her tightly because she was nice, and he didn't want her to cry.

He looked at the ship through tear filled eyes. "I'm sorry... it's very cruel of them... They shouldn't..."

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

She wasn't exactly used to hugging, except from Zelda or her mom, but right now it felt like what she needed. And she could appreciate it it more because Taiki was close to her age and she'd been there for him when he was sick.

"I c-can't b-believe... My m-mom built that ship, w-why would they-"

[notagiraffe]

"Because they are cruel." Taiki's eyes glinted, he was mad at them, because all they did was hurt people, and there was absolutely no purpose in this except to make Tetra cry.

"They knew... sorry... they knew it would make you cry..."

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"It's n-not right. They keep t-trying to convince us that they s-saved us but n-nothing they do supports that."

Sure, they had given her the Triforce of Wisdom back but what did that really do for her now? And it wasn't even real. It wasn't fair. It wasn't right.

[notagiraffe]

"They might... sorry... they might have saved us... but it wasn't to be nice..." They had done it for their own reasons, and those were not nice Taiki was sure.

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"It doesn't really count as saving then. It's more like... like kidnapping."

If she'd had a choice, young as she is, Tetra would have stayed on the Great Sea and gone down with her ship like any good captain.

[notagiraffe]

"It is..." He shuffled his feet.

"Um..." Changing the subject was hard and he looked awkward. "Where you... sorry... where you a sailor then?"

Dorm Room 1-09

[axeforasong]

[so, on a rating of 1 to 10, when you arrived at Zelda's dorm room how much were you expecting to find a classily dressed midget with an axe and gory decapitated pony's head sitting on one of the beds?]

-Ah! Hello!

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[About negative five to be perfectly honest. What is it with people having severed animal heads today?]

'Hoy there. Y'know where Aunt Zelda is?

[axeforasong]

[IT'S THE MAIL

she shrugs]

Afraid not. Haven't seen lately?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[Damn packages.]

I usually see her every day. [Night.] I jsut wanted to ask if she knew somewhere that I can hide this.

[Gesturing to the bag.]

[axeforasong]

Hmm... [headtilt]

Hard to say, yes? Who to hide from?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Just... anyone really. It's something that was left in my mailbox, pieces of a ship my mom built.

[And a flag with the blood of her crew all over it.]

[axeforasong]

Hmm... not really familiar with hiding in Tower... could bury in meadow?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Maybe but someone might find it there. And it feels wrong to bury what's left of a ship in the dirt.

[axeforasong]

What's alternative; put out to sea? [IS THERE EVEN A SEA 'FLOOR' IN THIS TOWER? IS THAT A THING THAT EXISTS?]

Dorm floors

[flamingjustice]

[A child wandering the halls and pulling along a bag isn't a sight Jenna sees every day. It always surprises her whenever she sees anyone so small here, though by now she's aware that there is a good handful of them running around. She calls out to the young girl.]

Are you looking for someone?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

[Tetra quietly sets her bag down to look over to Jenna. Brushing back her hair and wiping a little sweat from her brow, Tetra nods.]

Yeah, I'm lookin' for Princess Zelda. She's been around awhile so I figure she might know where I can hide somethin' at.

[flamingjustice]

I've never met anyone named Zelda... I'm sort of new, [Jenna says by way of apology. She smiles.] But if you'd like some company while you look, I don't mind helping.

[She looks to Tetra's bag of ship parts, curious, but doesn't ask. It's obviously important to her and that's all Jenna needs to know.]