3rd - I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool.

[princeoftheravens]

Who: Matrim Cauthon and you!
Where: Inside the Nostalgia Nook
When: Morning to Afternoon
Style: [Action!]
Status: Open~!

[Today, Mat's decided to look through all the selections of longbows, and if what he's muttering is any clue, he isn't finding what he's looking for. Only really seeing all the bows on his right doesn't help any.]

Blood and ashes...Too short. And that one feels about to crack... [He reaches for a couple more, lifting them individually before putting them back with a grumble, leaning on his ashandarei a bit.]

Too light. And that one was too heavy. [He turns left to better see the selection, lifting another possible choice before putting it back with a sigh.]

This one's too tall. And all of these probably wouldn't have enough flaming range. [Bother him?]

Comments

[princeoftheravens]

[Another blink.]

What's a chocobo? [He...usually avoids the network.

And that makes him grin, like the 22 year old former farmboy he is.]

We usually had armguards, but gauntlets probably work just as well. [....Yeah. That's...a lot worse.]

[blessedbyfarore]

There's these big bird things that people can ride! There's a whole lot that live here, mine's called Asi. He's green. [Pretty noticable, huh?]

[He probably shouldn't mention the temple inside the active volcano, the ice caverns, or the desert either then, huh.]

[princeoftheravens]

...A ride-able bird? [He...what. Just. What? And his is green? This is a strange place. Birds don't get big enough to ride back in the westlands!

And that'd probably be a good idea. Link, take care of your bow! Though those are better than the Water Temple for it.]

[blessedbyfarore]

Yeah! I think some of them moved to the forest after Lea left - he had a whole lot. I bet you can see some there.

[He went from the Water Temple to a burning village. That counts as drying it, right?]

[princeoftheravens]

[Good enough, since you would put it by a fire to dry it. Just never mention it to him anyway. He chuckles.]

I guess I should go the forest sometime. If I can't find a bow I'll need to go there anyway, but that's another reason to.

[Maybe he can catch a badger there...]

[blessedbyfarore]

There's lots of good things in the forest, not just chocobos! I live there, actually. [Once a forest boy, always a forest boy?]

[princeoftheravens]

What kinds of good things? [Yep yep! Does it have sheep? Mat can't tell if Link is like Rand was (a farmer away from the village) or just someone who likes camping out in the forest, but it doesn't matter that much. He just lives in the forest, it's cool.]

[blessedbyfarore]

[Raised in one, actually.] All sorts of stuff! Birds and animals, and it's shady under the trees, and there's streams with fish in them. The forest I'm from had fairies, too.

[princeoftheravens]

[Was it like being raised in such a backwater village they didn't know it was part of a kingdom?

...what.] Fairies.

[Looking at the boy's ears, he might be telling the truth...The only ears he's seen like those are Zelda's, the woman who used...what had Matthew called it? Magic. That's it. It wasn't the One Power after all. But...Fairies. Really. He shakes his head.]

So it's like a regular forest that has streams.

[blessedbyfarore]

[That's actually a fairly close approximation, yes.]

[Link huffs a little.] What's wrong with fairies? And I guess, but isn't that nice enough?

[princeoftheravens]

[Link, you're from the Hyrule universe's version of the Two Rivers then. Though you didn't grow up being a farmer.

Mat nods. He just. Won't reply to that fairy thing. THEY DON'T EXIST, that's what's right wrong with them.]

Sure is.

[blessedbyfarore]

[Navi would take great offense to that, really.]

[Scratching the back of his head awkwardly, Link looks a little embarrassed.] Well... they're there if you want to see them, right?

[princeoftheravens]

[I can imagine. But who is he to say what's real and what's not? Everything they thought was just a story in the Two Rivers has turned out to be real. And most have chased them.

He nods again. The forest... He smiles.]

Burn me, I could look for black yew while looking for those Chocobos. [Though he probably would need Perrin's help to make the bow. But maybe then they'd all have bows they could use.

...Mat just will avoid Rand when he practices his archery. Magic is not something he wants to be around.]

[blessedbyfarore]

[Different worlds. Gotta love them.]

[Link tilts his head, frowning in utter perplexity.] Why do you want someone to burn you?

[princeoftheravens]

[...right. Not the same world.]

I don't want someone to flaming burn me.

[He's used to people chastising his language, not taking what he says literally...This won't help at all.]

[blessedbyfarore]

But you just said 'burn me'. Why did you say that if you don't want someone to?

[WHAT IS SLANG.]

[princeoftheravens]

[He wonders that too. This isn't slang, it's swearing. There's a difference.

He just sighs. Guess he'll have to mind his language here so he doesn't have to explain, instead of so Nynaeve doesn't hit him. Not that he'd been near Nynaeve for a while.

How old is this kid anyway? Olver hadn't even asked things like that when they first found him.]

It's...You know how you hear some words and when you repeat them someone tells you not to because they're bad? It's one of those things. [HOPEFULLY that makes sense.]

[blessedbyfarore]

Oh! Like that lion - well, I guess he's not a lion - saying 'motherfucker' a lot?

[No Link we do not speak to the Grand Highblood.]

[Also. Whoops.] Um, I don't think you're supposed to say that, though.

[princeoftheravens]

[Motherwhat? He's never heard that before... Also a not!lion? What's a lion?]

I guess so. [A shrug] We don't say that in my world.

[And he chuckles.] Hasn't stopped me before. [Maybe he'll stop. But it'd only be so he doesn't have to keep explaining what he means.]

[blessedbyfarore]

I learnt it here too, I'm not really sure what people say in Hyrule. [...Maybe it's not a good idea to ask Zelda that particular question.]

[princeoftheravens]

[....if he does, please don't mention the one eyed man with a polearm.]

I wouldn't ask someone else from your world, if you think that you're not supposed to say them still.

[blessedbyfarore]

I don't think Sola would know many either. [Actually, he has picked up a surprising amount from his trolldads...] And Zelda's a princess, so she wouldn't say stuff like that, right?

[princeoftheravens]

[Sorry, did you just say Zelda's a princess? Mat blinks, very slowly. That. would explain why she kind of reminded him of Elayne.

At the question, he laughs, hard.]

I don't think Zelda would, but Elayne, the bloody Queen of Andor, swears just as much - if not more - than me. And she did when she was the Daughter Heir, basically Princess, too.

[blessedbyfarore]

Wow! Really? [He just can't picture Zelda saying things like that... on the other hand.] I guess if you were a queen, no one could tell you not to say them.

[princeoftheravens]

Really! [It sure shocked them the first couple of times, but they got used to it. Another chuckle.]

Seems like it. Doesn't stop them from giving her disapproving looks when we're in private though. [We're meaning him, her secretary/treasurer/spymaster, Thom, Birgitte, Elayne, and her advisor. Them meaning the two who weren't named.]