just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

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[sageprincess]

[Her expression sobers a bit as Hilda recounts her tale, but she does, eventually, nod and lift her right hand, allowing Wisdom to softly glow through her wrappings.]

That is correct. [At least one version of history remembers her more fondly than she would give herself credit for. She places her hand back in her lap.] I suppose that solves that mystery.

[At least one version of history remembers her at all, which is more than could be said for Tetra's era.]

[lorule]

[ Hilda obviously looks at Wisdom when it glows through the wrappings-- Maybe too insistently so until Zelda places her hand back in her lap. But she then nods. ]

It appears so. You may be happy to hear that Ganon was-- Or rather will be defeated, and your Triforce... Brought back together to your sacred realm.

[ No need to mention the reason this all happened is because she tried to take it to her Sacred Realm in the first place. ]

[sageprincess]

[...]

I would be, but... I regret it was the responsibility of my descendant to defeat him once more.

[I should have done more, hangs heavily in the air, but it goes unsaid. She doesn't know what more she could have done, at this point, and yet... the terror of the Evil King is not a burden she would wish upon anyone, much less her descendants.]

[lorule]

You should feel no regret. For all intent and purposes, the seal should never have broken and I am afraid I bear my part of responsibility in this. Your seal was perfect.

[ She didn't go into details of how she had a part of responsibility; this could mean a multitude of things, and none of which she wanted to speak. But this didn't feel right that Zelda would feel guilty for something she'd done. ]

[sageprincess]

[She shakes her head.]

Your words are kind, Princess, but... during my time here, I have learned of many timelines and worlds in which the Evil King breaks our seal. A perfect seal would not fall in so many instances.

[Perhaps she should ask what Hilda means by bearing her own responsibility, but the more she speaks, the less she sees a point on doing so. Not when Ganondorf's return is seeming increasingly inevitable regardless of what is done.]