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Apr. 3rd, 2017 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gluttonforpunishmentThe Champions are alive. Their souls freed from the Divine Beasts, their bodies from the Calamity. Link's injured, bleeding freely from a gouge along his ribs - and several of those are broken besides, but he's still on his feet, sword in his hand still alight with energy. He looks them over: Revali, Urbossa, Zelda, Daruk... Mipha.
He's exhausted. Even with their help, Ganon had not gone down easy. It had been hours of fighting and then so long on horseback with broken ribs, every draw of the Bow of Light excruciating. He's exhausted physically, and mentally, and he's not sure what's keeping him on his feet. Maybe just the stubborn refusal to collapse.
He's shed his helmet already, and he wants to sheathe his sword, but just the idea of lifting his arm makes him more tired - his arm feels like lead, he might have broken his arm as well...
Link smiles weakly. His voice is gone - dry and hoarse, so instead he just smiles and bobs his head. He's glad they're alright, he's glad Ganon is gone, but if they'll excuse him, he needs to sit down. Or maybe collapse.
His legs start to go, and it's Daruk who gets to him first, lowering him gently to the thick grass, trampled and scorched and muddy. "Easy, buddy," he says, bracing Link semi-upright.
"Are you alright, Link?" That's Zelda, hurrying to him. He's glad to see she's unhurt after her ordeal. Her dress is clean, though her sandals and feet are muddied. He nods, though he really definitely isn't alright. But he's alive, and they're alive, and Ganon is dead - or at least gone.
He looks up, past Daruk and Zelda, to Mipha. She's fine as well. He finally takes his hand off the hilt of his sword and signs - his arms are jelly, but they're stronger than his voice, "I'm really tired." He sags against Daruk. The Goron is warm even if he's a bit too hard to be comfortable to lean against. His hands fall into his lap and he blinks tiredly. He's not sure even Mipha - if she's even strong enough yet - will be able to heal all this, but he doesn't care. He has time to recover.
He's exhausted. Even with their help, Ganon had not gone down easy. It had been hours of fighting and then so long on horseback with broken ribs, every draw of the Bow of Light excruciating. He's exhausted physically, and mentally, and he's not sure what's keeping him on his feet. Maybe just the stubborn refusal to collapse.
He's shed his helmet already, and he wants to sheathe his sword, but just the idea of lifting his arm makes him more tired - his arm feels like lead, he might have broken his arm as well...
Link smiles weakly. His voice is gone - dry and hoarse, so instead he just smiles and bobs his head. He's glad they're alright, he's glad Ganon is gone, but if they'll excuse him, he needs to sit down. Or maybe collapse.
His legs start to go, and it's Daruk who gets to him first, lowering him gently to the thick grass, trampled and scorched and muddy. "Easy, buddy," he says, bracing Link semi-upright.
"Are you alright, Link?" That's Zelda, hurrying to him. He's glad to see she's unhurt after her ordeal. Her dress is clean, though her sandals and feet are muddied. He nods, though he really definitely isn't alright. But he's alive, and they're alive, and Ganon is dead - or at least gone.
He looks up, past Daruk and Zelda, to Mipha. She's fine as well. He finally takes his hand off the hilt of his sword and signs - his arms are jelly, but they're stronger than his voice, "I'm really tired." He sags against Daruk. The Goron is warm even if he's a bit too hard to be comfortable to lean against. His hands fall into his lap and he blinks tiredly. He's not sure even Mipha - if she's even strong enough yet - will be able to heal all this, but he doesn't care. He has time to recover.
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Date: 2017-09-15 12:47 am (UTC)Otoh works carefully, taking breaks from the bruises to also work the balm into his knees and calves - it will work to soothe some of the lingering aches.
Link soothes every time she moves her hands down, but when she works her way up, gingerly touching the bruises, he tenses, toes curling in anticipation.
Otoh shakes her head a little. "Link, you know you just have to say you're in pain. I can give you something."
"It's fine," he signs, shaking his head. "It's just tender."
"These are some pretty deep bruises, and I'm barely touching you." Otoh gets up and makes her way back to her cabinets and again finds the bottle of painkiller tonic. Again, she wets a tiny bit of cloth with it. "Here, let me."
He opens his mouth without a protest, though, and lets her rub the liquid into his gums. Almost instantly, he sighs in relief and relaxes, the tension finally going out of his shoulders and hips.
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Date: 2017-09-24 05:55 am (UTC)Really, Mipha's just glad Otoh knows how to deal with him by now.
"Relaxing will help your body to heal better," she says almost off-hand, knowing that's completely obvious but saying so out loud to make a point to Link. "...And perhaps sleep deeper, as well..."
While the last part is said in a vaguely unsure tone, it's not entirely impossible. Resting with a potent painkiller like that might induce a heavier sleep, blanketing the nightmares and normal dreams alike. He probably hasn't had a good, restful, deep sleep in...
...Well.
The blue glimmer of light flickers underneath her webbed hands, and she allows it to fade and draw back for the moment as his pain is freshly lessened. Best to save it until the wagons start moving; even she's not back at full strength yet. She looks around the wagon, catching a glance outside through the curtain, and turns back to Link's resting form again with a warm smile.
"Of course, that might become easier once we reach Kakariko."
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Date: 2017-10-11 01:23 am (UTC)Link nods. It probably will be easier to sleep inside Kakariko. Inside a village that, while noisier than in the open, was also better-defended, with guards and a narrow mountain pass that was easy to defend.
He starts to close his eyes, then jumps when he remembers that it's not only the calm of the village waiting for them all, but... Paya. He's been focused only on his task and Zelda these past few months, but it's impossible to not have noticed that she seemed to like him. To want to be with him.
He glances to Mipha. Would she be upset, that Paya had feelings for him? Probably not, after all they'd been through together. But it would be awkward, for sure.
He flinches his leg out of Otoh's grasp as she finishes with rubbing the balm in, then looks to Mipha. He'd just have to tell her that Paya had a crush on him, right? Better for her to find out now than later...
Link opens his mouth, closes it, then fumbles his hands made heavy and clumsy by the painkiller.
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Date: 2017-10-17 06:59 pm (UTC)The little jump he makes catches her attention once turning to Otoh after it looked like he was ready to rest again, but she takes it as part of the discomfort of having his sore legs touched.
But then the fidgeting starts, and Mipha tilts her head slightly to the side with mild confusion. Her smile wanes as his sluggish hands fail to produce a comprehensible sign.
"Hmm? Is something the matter, Link?" She straightens her posture a bit and concern starts seeping back into her expression. He looks troubled, and that might mean a deeper pain he's hesitant to point out again. Despite having just cut off her own form of treatment, the hands that lay folded in her lap look just as ready to spring to help again. "Has the tonic not taken full effect somewhere?"
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Date: 2017-12-29 10:04 pm (UTC)sorry! it was my turn to reread our thread
Date: 2018-01-01 01:13 am (UTC)The look on his face reads troubled to her, as though he's worried about her reaction? "I see..." She ducks her head, cheeks flushed. "Well, I...I can certainly see why."
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Date: 2018-01-01 05:01 am (UTC)"But it's nothing to worry about, Princess. Link's only had his heart on you this whole time, even before he remembered you."
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Date: 2018-01-01 08:13 pm (UTC)"Were-- ...Are you... afraid of what I might think...?" But even without an answer, her smile is already reassuring.
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Date: 2018-01-25 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-27 04:41 pm (UTC)Her mind tries to imagine this girl, resulting in many different images, though she assumes they'd meet soon enough. "So are you," she says with a tilt of her head to the side. Did he mention that because of their obvious age gap? Even so, it's hard not to feel a tinge of jealousy in the back of her mind just as she did with Zelda years ago, although now...now things are quite, quite different.
"You know...that I could never be angry with something such as this......don't you?"
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Date: 2018-02-11 05:08 am (UTC)"He doesn't know how to let her down without hurting her," Otoh says quietly. "She's smart, though, I imagine she'll understand without having tiny be told." There were few other ways to interpret the way Mipha and Link acted around each other.
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Date: 2018-02-16 05:03 pm (UTC)"Ending up hurt is...inevitable, I am afraid..." Hopefully not toward Link, but then again she doesn't even know what kind of person this is. Otoh's words don't fall flat to her, though. "Is talking to her something...something that you would like to do?"