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Who: Sufferer and anyone
Where: around the Plaza
When: New Year's Eve, around 7 PM
Status: open!
Style: contemplative

It's New Year's Eve, a holiday somewhat foreign to the trolls, but Sufferer knows enough to recognize it as a solemn, contemplative occasion. At least, that's how he's interpretting it. Or maybe it's just his new outlook on life.

Either way, the evening finds him in the Plaza, moving around it slowly, dreamily, carrying multi-colored paper bags and tea light candles. He sets each bag down carefully, fills it with a little sand or a few stones, and sets a lit candle in it. Those who were here last holiday season might remember him doing something similiar, and the Plaza is slowly filling up with gently flickering light.

It just seems like a good time of year for it.

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I'd say so.

[Sufferer slips over next to Link. If this were Sola, he'd hug him, but he doesn't know how Link would react to that, so he settles for putting a hand on his shoulder instead. ] It's hard to come face to face with our own mortality, isn't it?

[The hand on his shoulder is definitely welcome, and Link nods once.] Yeah... I don't like thinking about what will happen if I get sent back. And I guess I wouldn't have any warning, huh?

[He glances back at him.] Do you ever worry about that?

[Since Link isn't shrugging him off or anything, Sufferer squeezes his shoulder.] You wouldn't, no. I was here for awhile, and then sent back to my original world, and then brought her again.

[He sighs.] For all the gifts that it gives, this place can also be very cruel.

[He nods, gaze on the candle he had lit before.] It makes me worried. [Glancing up at Sufferer, his expression is almost pleading.] About Sola, and about Zelda... I think she'd feel like it was her fault if I got sent back. Or Sola...

[He exhales.] The same thing will happen to him if he gets sent back.

[All right, that's it, he just looks too much like Sola and Sufferer never could stand to see anyone hurting, anyway. If Link will allow it, Sufferer will try to gently fold him into a hug.]

If anything happens to you, I'll look out for Zelda and Sola. I promise.

[He has nothing to say to that second part, and just stays quiet.]

[Link doesn't return the hug, but he doesn't pull away, either.]

Thanks. I guess... no one can really know what happens, huh? And no one can stop it. [He doesn't exactly like that idea, alas.]

[Sufferer holds him for a moment longer before releasing him.]

No. If I'd had the choice, I wouldn't have left. And I don't want to leave now. [he shrugs helplessly] I know my time on my own world is done, and that this is just borrowed time from something else... but I still don't want it to end.

[Again, he nods, managing to force a wavery smile on his face.] Same here. I like being alive... I don't want this to end. I don't want to be dead.

Are you sure you're dead, Link? Zelda implied that you were still very much alive, and she might be further along on the timeline than you.

[Oh, Sufferer... not everyone is used to timeline shenanigans!]

[His expression twists a little.] I don't think we are. We remember different things, not just her remembering more things - she didn't even remember me getting hurt. And -

[His voice catches a little, a strained quality to it.] I've been knocked out before, and this felt - it didn't feel like it.

I'm so sorry. [Who has two thumbs and is going in for another hug? Thiiiiis guy!] I didn't mean to make you feel worse.

It's okay. [He manages a faint, tired smile.] You didn't know. It's just... I don't know why we remember different things. It's weird.

[Glancing up at him almost cautiously, he asks, voice hesitant,] With you, what - happened?

[It's okay, Sufferer doesn't mind talking about it.]

I was executed.

[Link cringes at that - it sounds terrible.] That would be... [He can't even imagine it - knowing that death was approaching. At least, with him, it was quick.]

[He hesitates for a moment, then softly adds,] I had to stop an evil person that had taken over Hyrule and captured Zelda. And - I lost.

[Sufferer's voice is quiet when he answers.]

Did you die for what you believed in?

[What did he believe in? Hyrule wasn't his home. He had started all this on the Great Deku Tree's instruction, and then because he wanted to help Zelda -]

[And for all the friends he made along the way. He had fought for them, for their safety.]

[Wordlessly, he nods once.]

[Sufferer hugs Link tighter.]

So did I.

[Link returns the hug, the faintest of sad smiles on his face.]

Then... I guess that's okay, isn't it? It wasn't a waste... I protected everyone as much as I could.

((OOC: Hey! I've just come off hiatus - I know it's been a while, so if you want to drop this thread, that's perfectly fine :) Just let me know!))

Edited 2013-02-20 02:44 (UTC)

Exactly. We do as much as we can.

I just - I wish I knew what happened to Hyrule. After, I mean. [His voice is subdued.] I want to know that they're gonna be okay.

You did everything you could. No one could have asked you to do more. What happens to them now is beyond your control, but you can rest knowing that you did all you could to make sure they succeed.

I guess so. [It's a fragile, cautious smile, but he manages it.] I guess there's no point worrying about something I'll never be able to change - right?

That's right. [Sufferer smiles back at him, this shy, gentle boy who reminds him so much of Sola.] They'll do what they can with what you've given them.

I just hope it's enough.

[Straightening up and letting his breath out, Link's smile brightens just a little, feeling somewhat lighter.]

I think I'm going to go find some dinner. Um - thanks for talking to me.

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