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Characters: Tetra an OPEN
Setting: multiple locations
Format: action spam
Summary: Tetra's spent a couple of week on the remnants of her world and now she's back.
Warnings: None yet, will update if this changes

[Dorm Room 01-09]

[She hadn't quite expected to wake up in her bed in the tower but she did. It was better than the tireless, hungerless wasteland that as her world though. For awhile she just lays in her bed and, oddly, takes comfort in being here instead of there.

Eventually gets up though, checks her things to make sure no one got nosy while she was gone and then leaves her room.]

[Floor 33]

[Tetra... isn't one for farming. She's still more suited to the sea, to getting food when they stop at different islands or raid other ships, but it's nice to stop once in awhile and see if anyone else is making use of it. Someday, she might try her hand at it. If only to keep herself from getting bored (which didn't frequently happen with the tower and its administrators) while they still had time to live.

And it was pretty neat to see plants and food actually growing, even if it is just glamour.]

[Floor 25 - closed to Zelda]

[Training with Zelda. She's still not used to it, probably never will be, but Zelda was experienced and had a lot she could teach the younger princess. She found her vest, tank top and shorts from among her things. The clothes showed the wear and tear of two years in the tower, several places clearly patched by someone who isn't used to things like sewing.

And then she headed to the meadow floor. There was plenty of space there for them both, somewhere that Tetra wouldn't have to worry about hurting anyone accidentally.]

[Floor 14]

[Sometimes you just need a little bit of fun. That's what brought Tetra to the fourteenth floor where she starts poking through the collection of movies and games for something to watch or play. Maybe Link or someone will come by and play a game with her.]

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[Are you kidding? He has absolutely no concept of knocking.]

I'm glad you're okay.

[His voice is tiny as his arms latch around her just as tightly.]

[She's going to hold on for a bit so you better hope you aren't needed anywhere, Link.]

Me too. I went back home for a little while.

They're not lying, Link. Everything is all messed up.

[If he was, he isn't now.]

Messed up...?

[He still clings to her, not wanting to have to meet her eyes. His voice is smaller than usual.]

How?

[And she's not pulling away to look at him.]

They really are dead, Link. Their bodies are just lyin' around.

[Link freezes. He suddenly feels as if a cold fist had gone right through his chest. It's an eternity before he manages a peep, and it really is nothing more than a peep. Intonated like a question, but not truly a word. His throat has squeezed shut.]

Tetra...

[She must be wrong. There's no way that everything could just be gone. That everyone could just be gone. Link's fingers clutch at the back of Tetra's shirt. His hands tremble.]

[She wishes she were wrong. The entire time she was back there, she kept trying to find someone, anyone, that was still alive. But there wasn't. Not one.

She was alone.]

We have to save them, Link. No matter what it takes. We have to save them.

[They still have time left. They can save them still.]

[Link finally pulls away. He's being stupid. Pull it together.

He looks up at Tetra with watery eyes and nods, the corners of his mouth turned down in a frown he couldn't hide. He can't afford to think about what Tetra must have seen. His home, Outset...]

[He's still just a kid. More than her, anyway. He hasn't lived through as much in the tower. In some ways that's just what they need and in others... it would be better to have a bit more experience under his belt.]

We can do it. You're the Hero of Winds, remember?

I know.

[Link's tone is almost indignant. He's far from home and once again carrying the weight of the world on hie shoulders. Last time, he wasn't alone. And this time, he isn't either.]

I'm not scared. I just... thought it was done.

[This 'saving the world' business... Link doesn't mind the role. He's never even really considered its complete magnitude. But things had been looking up, back home.]

[At least the weight is spread out over the shoulders of every tower resident, everyone that wants to go home and see their loved ones again.]

Yeah, I thought so too. I think everyone here who had to save their world thought it was done too.

[Except this time it wasn't just someone like Ganondorf. And this time, they weren't being the hero on their own. A bunch of them were working together.]

[He gives another small nod and wipes the doubt from his expression.]

It's... good to have you here for it again.

[Is that the longest sentence he's ever uttered? Maybe. But the Big End is creeping closer, and Link feels at ease knowing that Tetra is going to be right there once again.]

It's kinda good to be back.

[She yanks him into a hug again, squeezing him as tightly as she dares. Together they had beaten Ganon and together, with all the towers residents, they would beat Ruana and fix the worlds.

They would go home.]