vatheon | 006 - The Name of Life

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006 - The Name of Life

Who: Dhaos and you!
Where: the park
When: Wednesday afternoon to evening
Style: starting with [ ], can switch to prose
Status: open

[If anyone were to wander the park today, they might glimpse a rather unusual sight.

Many worlds tell tale of the creature known as the unicorn. They tell of its majesty and purity; a being that is the symbol of innocence. It seems that the cures has deigned to transform a certain individual into one...from the waist down. Yessir, Dhaos' torso seems to be growing out of the neck of a white horse. The only tip-offs to his status as a unicorn are the rather lion-like tail, cloven hooves, and the fairly small (but quite pointy, as the shirt he had ruined in a failed attempt to put some sort of clothing on would attest) horn sprouting from his forehead.

He appears to be playing with some assorted wildlife at the moment. Bother him?]

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[Oh hey, is that a horse?]

[No, wait, that's Dhaos. Well, never mind, there's a... rather large red bird setting down near him anyway, tilting its bright red head.]

[That is a very big beak.]

Dhaos? Are you having fun being a horse?

[And yup, that's Link's voice coming from the very big beak...]

[It's not Link's voice coming from a bird that confuses him; given that he'd seen a number of others throughout the week with various animal parts and his own status, it's a fairly normal thing. No, what confuses Dhaos is being referred to as a horse.]

...A horse? Is that what you call unicorns in your world?

[Yep, guess who's planet doesn't have horses?]

[Yeah, now the bird just looks perplexed.] I - maybe? They have four legs and they're pretty big...

[Hmm. Looking closer.] But their tail and hooves are different. And they don't have horns!

[Dhaos tilts his head a bit to the side, trying to understand the concept of the horse-creature.]

So they are pegasai ~~what even is the plural of pegasus~~ with four legs instead of eight?

[His world is also a rather bizarre hodge-podge of Norse mythology, mmhm. What they call pegasai, we would call "Sleiphnir."]

[The Loftwing, almost unconsciously, also tilts his head.] Maybe... I've never heard of a pegasai. Wouldn't it get confused with eight legs?

Perhaps a little when they are very young, but such is the case with all creatures learning to use their limbs. Even losing or gaining limbs requires learning how to use them.

[Which is why he's very glad the coral seemed to have provided him with the knowledge of how to walk properly like this, because he's large enough in this body that he knows he could cause himself serious injury if he tripped.]

Uh huh! Or having different ones - wings are really different to hands, and both times I could fly before, I still had hands.

[He pauses, remembering just whose body he was in for that second lot of flying.] Um, I hope your body was still okay when you got it back! Ghirahim didn't eat or sleep in mine, so I was really hungry and tired afterwards...

[Ky had been meaning to get an apology to Dhaos, since he could only really remember being quite afraid of him, and he was pretty sure that it wasn't justified. This perhaps wasn't the best time, but since it was clearly Dhaos he had hopefully retained the ability to speak and listen, and it was better to get this cleared up sooner, if possible.]

Can I speak with you for a moment?

...Yes?

[Dhaos doesn't bat an eye at Ky's new...additions, but is still a little wary. After all, he does remember how terrified the other man was of him before, and what if... What if that was how he truly felt, even with his memories back in proper order? It wouldn't be unjustified, considering that Ky knew some of what he had done before coming to Vatheon, but...]

[Ky's ears twitch a little, but more a reaction to a wind than anything else. He smiles at Dhaos.]

Thank you for helping me when you found me.

I know you did what you thought was right.

[Even if Ky would rather not have been brought to Zelda's.]

[Dhaos doesn't know the doctors in Vatheon, so he defaulted to Zelda since he trusts she knows what she's doing. Still, Ky's vote of confidence makes him feel a bit better.]

Zelda would have been rather cross with me had I not brought you to her after setting your arm.

...How is it doing, by the way?

I suppose she can get...strange that way.

It's healing still, I hope.

...May I? [Accompanying the question is him holding his hands out slightly in askance. Perhaps he'd be able to safely heal Ky's arm if he uses his unicorn half's latent healing abilities.]

[Ky nods, looking at Dhaos now without the fear he'd displayed before. He doesn't know what he plans to do with his arm, but so it goes.]

_{[Rodi is just wandering around. Park is definitely her favorite place in Vatheon; it's so peaceful and green and...

...

...Is that Dhaos?]}

Dhaos?!

_{[Don't mind her staring a little.]}

Hm? Oh, hello Rondoline. How have you been?

[Yep, he's just going to continue on as if nothing strange is going on here. And considering that last month he was Ghirahim for a week, this seems more normal than being a living sword.]

Huh, uh, just fine.

_{[Rodi, stop staring at him.]}

...And you?

_{[Why are you acting like this is completely normal. Rodi's last stay here was too short for her to get used to things like this.]}

Things have finally calmed down for the most part, and the temperature is mild enough to allow me to comfortably sleep outside this week.

[And apparently the innate healing properties of unicorns somehow cured the illness he had come down with the previous week, so he really can't complain.]

_{[Let's pretend that talking to you like this isn't awkward at all. Rodi laughs.]}

Well, that's good I guess.

[He's doing his best to ignore the fact that he's technically completely naked like this, yes. Dhaos is about to reply when he's cut off by a squirrel clambering onto his shoulder and chittering in a decidedly annoyed way at him. He looks more than a little bewildered by this.]

Ah...?

_{[Rodi stares at the squirrel, then a short-lived laugh escapes her lips.]}

Your little friend sure looks annoyed.

He seems to be under the impression that we should feed him, but I have no way to remedy this.

[He doesn't tend to keep nuts in his inventory really. Why do they always seem to think he's holding out on them?]

_{[Rodi laughs again, then she shrugs.]}

In that case we have to look for some nuts for him.

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