"I would be good to mind my tongue." Sorry says, mocking Lelith. "Or what? You'll continue to meddle in people's messed up lives and make them somehow worse? Sure wouldn't want that, would I?"
She twists away from Lelith as she pulls her in for an embrace (Athletics 18) and backs away.
"Just stop." Sorry says. "I'm sure whatever you went through was awful, but..."
She stops, listening to Lelith as she explains about transient deaths, resurrections...and slowly she cocks her head to the side, listening...
"What else do you have? Will you wallow here surrounded by death or misery? Or will you follow me where there is a sliver of hope we can bring back Malon and Kora?" Lelith glared at the diminutive girl. "It is your choice. Will you deny your... our lost friends the opportunity of living a life that was cruelly taken away from them? Hm? What will it be, Sorry?"
Sorry looks around, at the state of her forest. There's a moment where she's muttering something about exactly that, about how she still has her forest, but there's no conviction. She finally shrugs.
"Why should I even care? What does it matter who lives and dies? Look at this place. Look at what happened at Hyrule Castle. You think this can be fixed? Even if you do somehow bring back Kora and Malon, and of that I'm skeptical... What are you bringing them back to? A world of death and misery."
Sorry sits down and draws up her knees, wrapping her arms around them.
"A world that we are actively working toward fixing and where safe havens do exist, where they could be taken to. This is pitiful, Sorry, and far below you," Lelith was frustrated. She hadn't expected one of the few actions with the intent to be selfless and good to be rejected. It annoyed her to no end. "Please, have at her Greko. If you can make her see reason, feel free."
"My dear....I am sorry for all the loss you've experienced. Truly I am. I too have lost a lot due to this calamity. My friends are scattered, some dead, like my young friend Ro. In fact I died at the hands of the devil and Ganon. Thankfully fate did not see that my time was up but instead of led me here to this moment with you. The woods that I loved are gone, the Great Deku tree, despite our best efforts, seems to be corrupted or dead. I understand wanting to give up hope but hope and friendship is all we need to conquer the evils of this world. Would your friends and family want you to give up? Just lay down and let evil win? Please join me and Lelith in helping to restore this land to good and defeat evil. We have a sanctuary where good people and the Dawn Guard have gathered and are fighting Ganon and his evil minions. Darth Vader is dead and others like him are losing ground. We need your help.....Please don't give up on hope."
Sorry begins to cry. Not a few silent tears streaming down her face. Fat sobs, painfilled wails that rack her body. Her hands come up, covering her eyes as she leans forward, a little shuddering cry forcing itself from between her lips. She reaches out as if to gather comfort to herself, but finding nothing, she pulls he knees up and wraps her arms tighter around them.
"My name's not Sorry." She weeps, putting her face down on her knees. "It's Saria. And I just wish it would all stop."
Greko’s raps his arm around her and pats her back “There there my dear Saria. There, there. Come with me and Lelith. Let us find you shelter, food and warmth away from here to raise your spirits.”
"There, there, Come with us. We have a giant bat that can take us to safety away from this place. The other 2 as you said are gone, sad, but let's honor their memory by defeating those who have done us harm." With that Greko gives a whistle and Baturday swoops down from the sky
Saria leaves with Greko and Lelith on the back of Baturday, and slowly they make their way back to Lon Lon Ranch to recover Malon, left behind when the ranch was overrun. Their flight reveals something that could have only been speculated upon before; the growth, the corruption from Hyrule Castle, was spreading, slowly crawling along the surface of Hylia in all directions. Toward the coast. Toward the Nothing. Toward Skull Woods. Everywhere.
Finding Malon amongst the ruins of Lon Lon Ranch wasn't hard. Her corpse, still ambling about in denial of its own demise, was in the barn. It had been walking around in a circle for so long that it had created a compressed circle in the floor. Putting its undeath to an end wasn't hard.
The Baturday flew them back to Skyloft, across the hugely grown expanse of the Mirkwood, over the Goron Range and across the Gerudo Desert and the Sea of Possibilities.
The Elders, including Krille, took the remains of Kora and Malon away for safe keeping while Gandalf met with Greko and Lelith.
"I can't say I'm glad to see either of you." Mithrandir said, grinning that wriy grin he grinned and smoking his pipe. "The next time I had hoped to see any of you was when balance was restored to the world. Instead you've brought me two dead bodies and a sad story. Now, tell me...what is it I can do for you?"
Greko looks to Lelith and then back to Gandalf "Well, I believe we can be helpful looking for something the others are not able to look for....we are but 2 who can move their way about places and talk to people. Lelith is very convincing, despite being.....harsh in her tone at times, but she's very good at what she does, and I am lovable....No one suspects an old, charming, good humored and natured lizard. So if there is something small we can aid in by all means send us, otherwise which of the groups need our help the most?"
Lelith took a deep breath, she glanced at Saria, before she made her request, "back when the Twilight Embers were still one, these two. The fairy, Kora, and the Hylian elf, Malon, were of great help to our cause as our group traveled the world for the Child Empress. Yet we have only repaid them with death and misery, and their friends now mourn and grieve for them. They have done much for us and they do not deserve their fate. I would like to humbly request their ressurection back into this world so that they may have a lifetime for them to live once more... I am willing to shoulder the cost of their ressurection if necessary."
"We can't. Not now, I mean." He says sadly before taking a puff from his pipe and blowing a smoke ring into the air. "I'm afraid that our magic is fading. But...I don't think all is lost. I think that with the calamity, and the waning of the crystal's power, is driving the loss of the greater magic in the world. It's almost like Ganon is syphoning it all up in Hyrule Castle, though I think that there's also a chance that some is going into whatever mess grips the Labyrinth and the surrounding countryside."
He runs his fingers through his long beard as he listens to Greko, and offers the White a smile.
"It may be time for you two to split up." He says gently. "Greko, the Ardent Remnants...what is left of the Order of the Phoenix and the Twilight Embers, are trudging through the underworld and may need your assistance. As for you, Lelith..."
Gandalf pauses, still stroking his beard.
"Andromeda's Answer has split, divided by internal conflict. Part of them are in the Goron Range, soon to barter a deal with the Goliath's there for passage to the Great Grass Sea. Well, hopefully barter, I'll say. Only Stasolya and Thea have made it to the land of the Dothraki, where I believe Princess Zelda to be hidden. If you could meet with Judal, Malenia, and Ereni in the mountains, you may be able to go south with them and help recover the Princess."
"Indeed it sounds very grim, very grim indeed....You are losing your magic here, but what if you were to leave and go elsewhere? I have not found that I have lost any pep in my step" Greko giggles trying to bring some humor into a bad situation. "I will go to the Underworld as you suggest. I have a little surprise for my friend Rum" Greko pats his pocket. He turns to Leltih and places a hand on her shoulder "Remember they are your companions who are trying to help, be easy on them but try to mend the internal conflict....I read somewhere long ago that splitting the group is never good.....You are good, I have seen it....let others see it as well"
"This condition seems to be worldwide." Gandalf says. "Duncan is still coordinating with Castle Eternia from here, but it seems their communications are fading. From what I gather, the magic there wanes as well. And our spies near Nockmaar and the Dark Tower indicate much the same. For you heroes it may be different...but I suspect a day is coming where your magic will begin to fade as well, if we cannot get the situation under control. It's as though Hyboria is dying, and the Ganon is the cancer soaking up what was left of her strength."
Gandalf looks genuinely sad as he says this, then takes another tentative puff of his pipe.
"Lelith, when you are ready, we have procured a Death Hawk you may borrow. It will return when you have been dropped off with the others."
He puts his pipe in his mouth, chews the tip for a moment, then steps closer to her once he's exhaled.
"Your focus on what matters to you is admirable, and no doubt how you've gotten where you are." He says gently, respectfully but like an old friend, confiding in her wisdom that is ancient and hard learned. "But Greko is right. Give them your best, and together you will all accomplish great things. We are stronger together."
He intertwines his fingers and pulls as if to punctuate his point.
"The path may not be clear. The route to what you think is most important may not be straight. But remember, there is more to all this than a princess. So much more."
Lelith looked as if she wasn't listening but she lent them her ear nonetheless and offered a conciliatory nod, "I will try. I can promise no more than that."
It's not like she went out of her way to antagonize people or make enemies. They simply knew not how to tread around the Fey and rather than respect the boundaries set, they encroach upon them and refuse to back down. Neither does Lelith. Of course, she wasn't to go about another rant on the subject. She will try, that was her promise and her word was her life. If they did not even offer her a chance, how was she to blame then? Lelith decided then that the matter was closed.
Greko pats Lelith on the shoulder "Well this is good bye friend. I will see you again soon" With that Greko removes his hand and gives Lelith a nod as he waddles over to a window and looks out "So then...to the Underground"
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"I would be good to mind my tongue." Sorry says, mocking Lelith. "Or what? You'll continue to meddle in people's messed up lives and make them somehow worse? Sure wouldn't want that, would I?"
She twists away from Lelith as she pulls her in for an embrace (Athletics 18) and backs away.
"Just stop." Sorry says. "I'm sure whatever you went through was awful, but..."
She stops, listening to Lelith as she explains about transient deaths, resurrections...and slowly she cocks her head to the side, listening...
"Why should I believe you?"
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Greko looks at Lelith saying nothing, letting her instead to lie her way out of the next series of questions
"What else do you have? Will you wallow here surrounded by death or misery? Or will you follow me where there is a sliver of hope we can bring back Malon and Kora?" Lelith glared at the diminutive girl. "It is your choice. Will you deny your... our lost friends the opportunity of living a life that was cruelly taken away from them? Hm? What will it be, Sorry?"
"
Sorry looks around, at the state of her forest. There's a moment where she's muttering something about exactly that, about how she still has her forest, but there's no conviction. She finally shrugs.
"Why should I even care? What does it matter who lives and dies? Look at this place. Look at what happened at Hyrule Castle. You think this can be fixed? Even if you do somehow bring back Kora and Malon, and of that I'm skeptical... What are you bringing them back to? A world of death and misery."
Sorry sits down and draws up her knees, wrapping her arms around them.
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Greko approaches and puts a hand on Lelith's shoulder "May I or do you wish to continue down this road?"
"A world that we are actively working toward fixing and where safe havens do exist, where they could be taken to. This is pitiful, Sorry, and far below you," Lelith was frustrated. She hadn't expected one of the few actions with the intent to be selfless and good to be rejected. It annoyed her to no end. "Please, have at her Greko. If you can make her see reason, feel free."
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Greko sits next to Sorry
"My dear....I am sorry for all the loss you've experienced. Truly I am. I too have lost a lot due to this calamity. My friends are scattered, some dead, like my young friend Ro. In fact I died at the hands of the devil and Ganon. Thankfully fate did not see that my time was up but instead of led me here to this moment with you. The woods that I loved are gone, the Great Deku tree, despite our best efforts, seems to be corrupted or dead. I understand wanting to give up hope but hope and friendship is all we need to conquer the evils of this world. Would your friends and family want you to give up? Just lay down and let evil win? Please join me and Lelith in helping to restore this land to good and defeat evil. We have a sanctuary where good people and the Dawn Guard have gathered and are fighting Ganon and his evil minions. Darth Vader is dead and others like him are losing ground. We need your help.....Please don't give up on hope."
Sorry begins to cry. Not a few silent tears streaming down her face. Fat sobs, painfilled wails that rack her body. Her hands come up, covering her eyes as she leans forward, a little shuddering cry forcing itself from between her lips. She reaches out as if to gather comfort to herself, but finding nothing, she pulls he knees up and wraps her arms tighter around them.
"My name's not Sorry." She weeps, putting her face down on her knees. "It's Saria. And I just wish it would all stop."
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Greko’s raps his arm around her and pats her back “There there my dear Saria. There, there. Come with me and Lelith. Let us find you shelter, food and warmth away from here to raise your spirits.”
Lelith did her best and joined him in comforting and hugging Sorry... Saria.
Saria reaches out and grips the both of them and holds them tight as she cries...
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"There, there, Come with us. We have a giant bat that can take us to safety away from this place. The other 2 as you said are gone, sad, but let's honor their memory by defeating those who have done us harm." With that Greko gives a whistle and Baturday swoops down from the sky
Saria leaves with Greko and Lelith on the back of Baturday, and slowly they make their way back to Lon Lon Ranch to recover Malon, left behind when the ranch was overrun. Their flight reveals something that could have only been speculated upon before; the growth, the corruption from Hyrule Castle, was spreading, slowly crawling along the surface of Hylia in all directions. Toward the coast. Toward the Nothing. Toward Skull Woods. Everywhere.
Finding Malon amongst the ruins of Lon Lon Ranch wasn't hard. Her corpse, still ambling about in denial of its own demise, was in the barn. It had been walking around in a circle for so long that it had created a compressed circle in the floor. Putting its undeath to an end wasn't hard.
The Baturday flew them back to Skyloft, across the hugely grown expanse of the Mirkwood, over the Goron Range and across the Gerudo Desert and the Sea of Possibilities.
The Elders, including Krille, took the remains of Kora and Malon away for safe keeping while Gandalf met with Greko and Lelith.
"I can't say I'm glad to see either of you." Mithrandir said, grinning that wriy grin he grinned and smoking his pipe. "The next time I had hoped to see any of you was when balance was restored to the world. Instead you've brought me two dead bodies and a sad story. Now, tell me...what is it I can do for you?"
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DM of Legacy of NIMH
Greko looks to Lelith and then back to Gandalf "Well, I believe we can be helpful looking for something the others are not able to look for....we are but 2 who can move their way about places and talk to people. Lelith is very convincing, despite being.....harsh in her tone at times, but she's very good at what she does, and I am lovable....No one suspects an old, charming, good humored and natured lizard. So if there is something small we can aid in by all means send us, otherwise which of the groups need our help the most?"
Lelith took a deep breath, she glanced at Saria, before she made her request, "back when the Twilight Embers were still one, these two. The fairy, Kora, and the Hylian elf, Malon, were of great help to our cause as our group traveled the world for the Child Empress. Yet we have only repaid them with death and misery, and their friends now mourn and grieve for them. They have done much for us and they do not deserve their fate. I would like to humbly request their ressurection back into this world so that they may have a lifetime for them to live once more... I am willing to shoulder the cost of their ressurection if necessary."
Gandalf shakes his head at Lelith's request.
"We can't. Not now, I mean." He says sadly before taking a puff from his pipe and blowing a smoke ring into the air. "I'm afraid that our magic is fading. But...I don't think all is lost. I think that with the calamity, and the waning of the crystal's power, is driving the loss of the greater magic in the world. It's almost like Ganon is syphoning it all up in Hyrule Castle, though I think that there's also a chance that some is going into whatever mess grips the Labyrinth and the surrounding countryside."
He runs his fingers through his long beard as he listens to Greko, and offers the White a smile.
"It may be time for you two to split up." He says gently. "Greko, the Ardent Remnants...what is left of the Order of the Phoenix and the Twilight Embers, are trudging through the underworld and may need your assistance. As for you, Lelith..."
Gandalf pauses, still stroking his beard.
"Andromeda's Answer has split, divided by internal conflict. Part of them are in the Goron Range, soon to barter a deal with the Goliath's there for passage to the Great Grass Sea. Well, hopefully barter, I'll say. Only Stasolya and Thea have made it to the land of the Dothraki, where I believe Princess Zelda to be hidden. If you could meet with Judal, Malenia, and Ereni in the mountains, you may be able to go south with them and help recover the Princess."
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"Indeed it sounds very grim, very grim indeed....You are losing your magic here, but what if you were to leave and go elsewhere? I have not found that I have lost any pep in my step" Greko giggles trying to bring some humor into a bad situation. "I will go to the Underworld as you suggest. I have a little surprise for my friend Rum" Greko pats his pocket. He turns to Leltih and places a hand on her shoulder "Remember they are your companions who are trying to help, be easy on them but try to mend the internal conflict....I read somewhere long ago that splitting the group is never good.....You are good, I have seen it....let others see it as well"
"This condition seems to be worldwide." Gandalf says. "Duncan is still coordinating with Castle Eternia from here, but it seems their communications are fading. From what I gather, the magic there wanes as well. And our spies near Nockmaar and the Dark Tower indicate much the same. For you heroes it may be different...but I suspect a day is coming where your magic will begin to fade as well, if we cannot get the situation under control. It's as though Hyboria is dying, and the Ganon is the cancer soaking up what was left of her strength."
Gandalf looks genuinely sad as he says this, then takes another tentative puff of his pipe.
"Lelith, when you are ready, we have procured a Death Hawk you may borrow. It will return when you have been dropped off with the others."
He puts his pipe in his mouth, chews the tip for a moment, then steps closer to her once he's exhaled.
"Your focus on what matters to you is admirable, and no doubt how you've gotten where you are." He says gently, respectfully but like an old friend, confiding in her wisdom that is ancient and hard learned. "But Greko is right. Give them your best, and together you will all accomplish great things. We are stronger together."
He intertwines his fingers and pulls as if to punctuate his point.
"The path may not be clear. The route to what you think is most important may not be straight. But remember, there is more to all this than a princess. So much more."
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DM of Legacy of NIMH
Lelith looked as if she wasn't listening but she lent them her ear nonetheless and offered a conciliatory nod, "I will try. I can promise no more than that."
It's not like she went out of her way to antagonize people or make enemies. They simply knew not how to tread around the Fey and rather than respect the boundaries set, they encroach upon them and refuse to back down. Neither does Lelith. Of course, she wasn't to go about another rant on the subject. She will try, that was her promise and her word was her life. If they did not even offer her a chance, how was she to blame then? Lelith decided then that the matter was closed.
Greko pats Lelith on the shoulder "Well this is good bye friend. I will see you again soon" With that Greko removes his hand and gives Lelith a nod as he waddles over to a window and looks out "So then...to the Underground"