The Eternal Ark

by FierceOni

Written by The Fierce Deity Posted by Me Sequel to 'The Five' - Link and company must find the 6 locks of the Eternal Ark and seal it once and for all

25. Windhill

Chapter 24 – Windhill

Since Windhill was a floating land mass it was impossible to simply walk up to it. Therefore; a kind of station had been set up next to the great lake underneath the city to ferry people up and down through the use of gondolas or the huge birds that seemed to populate the area. It was early the next day that the party arrived at the station, which was a moderately sized number of buildings with the gondolas hanging outside each one on thick cables. As usual, Impa set about securing their way up to Windhill while the children sat around the lobby of one of the buildings. People bustled about, some of whom waved to Florella in recognition. Florella waved back with a sunny smile, lapping up the attention.
"Oh it's so good to be back home!" she sighed happily, stretching her arms out. "What about you, Talen? You excited to be here?"
"I'm infinitely glad to finally be in a place that I recognize," Talen murmured, trying to get a little bit of shuteye after being woken so early.
"I just love spring!" Zelda giggled. "Especially in Windhill! The Festival, Shera, Morgan and Isabella…it's just fantastic!"
"I wonder if Undrak's beard's gotten any shaggier since the last time we were here?" Saria mused. The girls got into a babble of excitement and anticipation at the prospect of seeing Shera again for the Spring Festival while Link and Talen sat off to the side with looks of resignation on their faces.
"Every year the girls get into a squealathon over the Spring Festival and every year we have to sit through it," Link mumbled to Ark.
"Do you not like Windhill?" Ark asked, still unsure about what to expect.
"Oh don't get us wrong," Talen said, waving his hands. "Windhill's great, it's just all the things that go along with it."
"Florella's speeches…" Link sighed.
"Squealing…" Talen continued.
"Decorations…"
"Clothes…" The two boys suddenly looked at each other.
"Dancing," they groaned simultaneously.
"At least they have boatloads of food there," Link shrugged. "I'd go insane if there weren't. Half the fun of coming here is seeing how much you can filch from the kitchens. Of course, certain people try to spoil that by taking it off of us." Saria looked over at the two boys and rolled her eyes.
"Oh stop complaining. You both eat more than what's good for you when we're there anyway. This year, please try to behave yourselves…and don't mix Ark up in your misbehavior either," she told them sternly. Link gave her a mocking salute before winking at Ark.
"I'll show you the best way into the kitchens," he whispered to the grey-haired boy.
"I heard that," Fura told him archly.
"Well with your ears flapping away, it's a wonder all of your girls can't hear the insects talking," Talen chuckled. He was about to be squashed into the ground by the collective retorts from the females, when Impa came back with the Hyrule Royal Family's seal in her hand. She flicked it into the air like a coin before stowing it safely in her leather pouch.
"We leave on the next gondola up, which is in about an hour," Impa told them. "Now…who wants a game of cards?"

The gondola clunked to a stop at the station in just under an hour. A whole group of people poured off of it, many of them merchants and traders. Once clear, Impa hurried the children on-board where they all took their seats. Talen and Link immediately sat themselves down next to each other with twin sighs, dropping their packs at their feet. Florella skipped over and sat on Talen's other side while Ark attempted to sit down near Link. Nyara, however, seemed to leap out of nowhere and dragged him away to another spot on the gondola where she got to work on his face and ears. Fura and Zelda, seeing that there was a free space next to Link, both dove for it but came up short as Saria daintily sat herself down instead. They glared daggers at her before sitting down across from the boy, grumbling terribly. Impa chuckled and sat down between the two girls.
"What are you grinning at?" Zelda frowned at her guardian.
"Nothing," Impa said with a straight face. Once the rest of the passengers had crowded on, the gondola lurched and began its slow ascent to Windhill high above. As the climbed higher and higher, Saria pressed her face against the window behind her and looked out over the field that stretched out beyond the lake.
"There it is!" she squeaked, stabbing her finger towards a peculiar landmark. Everyone else looked out with her at what looked to be a large depression in the ground with jagged pieces of metal strewn all about it. It was, in fact, the remains of the giant Iron Knuckle that Talen had hurled off of Windhill a number of years earlier. Since that point it had become an attraction of sorts, though few people actually knew of how it arrived there.
"I thought you said you'd clean that up one day," Florella murmured to Talen.
"Why would I do that? It's become an icon now," he said rather proudly. "One of my finest pieces of work." Florella shook her head and rolled her eyes.
"Yep, I'd even go so far as to say it's eclipsed the Spring Festival in terms of drawing people here," Link said with a nod of his head. Saria flicked his ear.
"Don't provoke her," she told him.
"But-"
"No." Link slumped his shoulders and tugged absently on the straps hanging from around his neck.
"I wonder what everyone'll say when they get a look at you," Fura told Link.
"Probably something along the lines of, "What did Florella do to you?" or something similar," Link mumbled. Florella gave an irritated little grunt and Saria thumped the side of Link's leg.
"What did I just tell you?" she asked intently.
"Sorry," he mumbled. "Shera will probably want to hear all about it. Should we tell her everything?"
"Why not?" Talen shrugged. "It'd be more help than hindrance. Shera and her parents have top access to the library; we'll have to tell them eventually and what better way to break the ice than to have her bring it up?"
"Good point," Link agreed. He sighed and lolled his head back. "Me so hungie."
"You sound so pathetic when you talk like that," Saria groaned. "And you only ate a few hours ago."
"Well I think it sounds adorable," Zelda said loftily. "Say it again, Link."
"I'll put it on my "to-do" list," he grunted. Zelda scowled at him while Fura held back laughter.
"Excuse me…how long will it take us to reach Windhill itself?" Ark asked somewhat nervously.
"I- oh," Impa winced when she glanced at the boy. Nyara, it seemed, looked like she was trying to get as much of his face into her mouth as possible.
"Good God, she's eating him!" Link exclaimed. "What did I tell you!? Huh? Huh!?"
"Oh hush, Link," Florella tutted. "She's not trying to eat him, she's…hmm, what is Nyara doing?"
"Nyara, are you all right?" Zelda asked curiously.
"I think you should be asking Ark that question," Talen murmured as the grey-haired boy squeaked uncomfortably and attempted to creep away. Luckily, Nyara turned away from Ark to answer.
"Nyara clean Ark face," she replied simply.
"P-People are looking at us, Miss Nyara," Ark winced. "Perhaps you should refrain until we reach our destination?" His tone was hopeful. Nyara looked at Ark thoughtfully, an odd flicker passing over her eyes, before she shrugged and nodded with a smile.
"Okay!" she grinned. "Nyara clean Ark later." The boy breathed a sigh of relief as the girls laughed quietly. Talen and Link didn't take pleasure in their friend's suffering.

With a jolt, the gondola arrived at the edge of the great floating land mass. There were scraping sounds and clunking noises as restraints were put in place to prevent the gondola from moving while people were getting off. The group picked up all of their equipment and filed out of the door along with all the other passengers and stepped out onto grassy soil. The question of exactly how the gondola was lifted all the way up was answered for Ark when the boy looked over and saw a large waterwheel connected to the cable suspending the gondola. When it was time for it to move again, the waterwheel was lowered into a fast-flowing river where it would begin turning and pulling the cable. Depending on which direction the gondola had to head in, it was placed on either the upper section or lower section of cable.
"Pretty impressive," Talen mused, as if reading Ark's thoughts. "Though I personally would ha-"
"Oh please don't, Talen," Florella groaned. "You always do this when you ride up here. Always." Talen looked slightly injured, but said nothing. Moving away from the gondola station, the group headed towards the city of Windhill which lay just off from the grassy field they had arrived on.
"Well Ark, Nyara…there it is; Windhill," Florella told them proudly. Ark and Nyara gasped in amazement. Windhill was truly a sight to behold, even for the rest of the group that were quite used to it. The buildings were all constructed out of sandy-coloured stone that almost glowed in the morning sun. Trees grew throughout the maze of streets and small canals and fountains zigzagged everywhere. The palace was most spectacular, however, with its tall spires reaching for the sky and its expansive gardens. A fine mist from the many waterfalls pouring from the edge of the great land mass gave the city an almost ethereal look with the great tower of the library standing tall against it all. Birds flew high above the lake in the center in small, white flocks and Ark and Nyara couldn't stop gazing in wonder at it all.
"I know what you're both thinking," Link told the two. "How could such a nice place spawn an evil such as Flo- Ow!" Saria silenced him by reaching up and wrenching his ear as hard as possible.
"I said that's enough," she told him sternly. Florella stuck her tongue out at the boy as he cringed in pain.
"Are…we staying in there?" Ark asked, pointing incredulously at the huge palace that backed the city. Zelda nodded.
"Yes. The Royal Family puts us up there every year. Oh it'll be so good to see them again!" the Princess squealed.
"Same stupid questions every year," Link muttered to Talen under his breath. The smith nodded ruefully.
"Well let's not delay!" Florella declared, pointing dramatically towards the palace. "Onwards!"
The walk through the city was by no means a peaceful one. Practically every citizen recognized Florella and called out enthusiastically to her. Florella, of course, lapped every last bit of attention up with absolutely no sense of modesty at all. Soon enough she was riding atop Talen's shoulders, waving to "her public" as she called them. Talen carried his burden in a very restrained manner, putting up with Florella's wriggling about and frantic waving. Soon, but not soon enough for the boys, they arrived at the palace gates whereupon Florella hopped down and skipped merrily up to the guards.
"Hello there," she giggled whilst doing a girlish curtsey. The guards blinked at her.
"G-Great Fairy! You've returned at last!" one of them exclaimed. "The Royal Family has been quite frantic at your disappearance."
"How sweet!" she cooed. "They missed me!" She was playing the cute little girl act for all it was worth.
"I think I'm going to be sick," Link muttered. Talen nodded in agreement.
"I don't suppose you could let me and my companions inside…could you?" she asked, holding her hands behind her back and scuffing her foot on the ground. The guards looked behind her.
"Oh! Princess Zelda! Sir Talen! Sir Link! We didn't see you there, please accept our humblest apologies! Of course you may enter!" the second guard said quickly. With one quick motion he thrust the gates open behind him and the two guards stood off to the side and allowed them to pass. Florella giggled and waved as she passed.
"Shameless," Impa said, shaking her head. Florella looked only slightly embarrasses.
"What?" she asked innocently.
"Sir?" Link grunted in disgust. "I'm not a "Sir" at all. Sir Link sounds stupid, I'd rather they not call me that."
"Me too," Talen frowned. "I'm a blacksmith, not a knight."
"Well I think it sounds very noble," Zelda told them both.
"I agree," Fura nodded. "Don't be such a pair of toads. Just think; you could be the Three Knights; Sir Link, Sir Talen and Sir Ark."
"I-I really don't think so," Ark murmured. Florella frowned at him.
"Not you too," she groaned. "Oh well, at least you don't have the boy disease like these two." She jerked her thumb at Link and Talen, both of whom looked quite proud of themselves.

The entrance area of the palace was cool and rather quiet as the group filed in. The guards posted on the immediate inside of the doors greeted them and offered to notify the Royal Family of their arrival, but Florella told them not to.
"I want to see the looks on their faces when we all surprise them!" The Great Fairy was beside herself and giggled mindlessly.
"Careful you don't pop, Florella," Talen told the over-excited girl.
"I'm excited!" she protested. "Where's Shera and the Kind and Queen? I wanna see them again!"
"Great Fairy," one of the door guards spoke up. "King Morgan and Queen Isabella are currently in the gardens with the princess Shera. If you head towards the flower beds you should find them."
"Why thank you!" Florella gushed. "We'll head there right away! Come on everyone, let's go!"
"Wheee," Link murmured dryly to Talen. Florella skipped her way towards the back of the palace where it opened up to the gardens. The girls knew every inch of the gardens like the backs of their hands since they had to search them on a yearly basis for Talen and Link, both of whom hid on a regular basis. Florella suddenly skidded to a halt in front of a large hedge. Florella peeked through it and saw Shera and her mother picking flowers for the Spring Festival. The rather rotund Morgan was sitting off to the side.
"Shhh!" she hissed. "They're behind here! Now…how should we surprise them?"
"This is really dumb, Florella. What's wrong with walking out and saying hello?" Link asked flatly.
"Because it wouldn't be great!" she snapped. "Now pay attention! When I count to three, we all- hey…where's Nyara?" It had suddenly come to the attention of everyone present that Nyara had disappeared from Ark's side.
"Ark? You see where she went?" Talen asked.
"No…one second she was here, the next she was gone. I don't have a very good feeling about this," Ark said quietly, looking around warily.
"Neither do I," Link murmured. The surrounding shrubs and bushes suddenly seemed a little intimidating.
"Oh well," Florella sighed. "The rest of us can still-"
"Shera!" Link called suddenly. Florella whirled around and saw Link walk casually out from behind the hedge with a broad wave. Shera's head snapped up and it took her a few moments to recognize who it was. "The rest of them are hiding behind the hedge here and I just wanted to ruin things for Florella. How have you been?"
"Oh Link! It's you!" Shera called excitedly, dropping the bunch of flowers she had been holding. She raced over as fast as possible as everyone walked out from behind the hedge. Just before she leaped in to hug the young Hylian, however, she skidded to a halt and stared at him incredulously.
"What in the world happened to you?" she asked. She pointed to his arm and the side of his neck and face. "You're…"
"Long story," Link sighed. "The gossips will fill you in, I'm sure of it." Florella stomped over and booted Link as hard as she possibly could, causing the boy to cry out and hop away in pain.
"Thanks for ruining my entrance you cretin!" she snapped. Shera's attention immediately turned to her other visitors.
"How long have you all been here? And Florella! We were all starting to get worried! Nobody had seen you for a while and with the Spring Festival so close…" Shera squealed.
"Come now, Shera, I'd never miss the Spring Festival! I must admit I cut it rather close…but we've had some unexpected delays," Florella admitted. "But we can talk about that later."
"At great length, no doubt," Link mumbled as Morgan and Isabella approached.
"Ah, it is good to see all of you again," Isabella smiled warmly. "Tell me, have you all been well?"
"Oh, we've had some interesting times," Impa chuckled. What followed was a quick catching-up conversation punctuated with hugs and hand-shakes.
"And your group seems to have grown by one," Isabella noted, casting attention to Ark.
"Oh! Isabella, Shera, Morgan…this is Ark," Florella introduced. "He's a little shy, but has frighteningly good manners." Ark looked slightly speechless and bowed low to the ground, greeting the Royal Family as formally as possible.
"Well, well," Shera whistled. "Where'd you learn such nice manners? Certainly not where Link came fr-"
"Don't start now," he grunted irritably.
"In trouble again?" Morgan asked somberly.
"We're always in trouble," Talen frowned. "And Ark only makes us look worse."
"I-I don't mean to…"
"They're only joking, Ark," Fura told the boy.
"By the way," Saria piped up. "There is another person with us, but she seems to have wandered off." Shera's eyes brightened.
"Another? Who is she?" Her eyes roamed questioningly to Ark, who didn't seem to notice. Zelda smiled.
"In a way," she chuckled. "Her name is Nyara and she's the cutest animal girl you've ever seen! She's got these little pom-pom things on her wrists and ankles and she's got the funniest way of speaking…"
"Dear God," Link muttered under his breath. "She's not all roses and sunshine. You know she's threatened to eat me on several occasions?"
"You probably deserved it," Shera scoffed. Link looked indignant as the King and Queen chuckled softly.
"Come, follow us inside and we can have you set up with rooms. Lead the way, dear," Isabella told her husband. As the group began to move off, however, a rustling in the bushes caught their attention.
"What could that be?" Morgan frowned. "I don't think there are any animals in the gardens…" The rustling continued until the bushes exploded and Nyara flew out straight at Link.
"Augh! No!" he cried. The Key came to life and the straps coiled down to the ground before launching the boy high into the air. Shera squeaked and Morgan let out a startled oath as Nyara rolled over the spot Link should have been standing in. The animal girl quickly got to her feet as Link landed near Talen.
"See!?" Link exclaimed. "That's what I'm talking about! She has it in for me!"
"What in the world is that thing around your neck?" Morgan gasped.
"It's a little hard to explain in short terms, your Majesty," Link winced. "Can it wait until a little bit later?"
"If you say so," Morgan murmured, still looking at the Key in surprise. Shera seemed to have gotten over her initial shock and walked up to Nyara.
"Hello, you must be Nyara," she smiled. "Nice to meet you, I'm Shera and these are my parents; Morgan and Isabella." Nyara blinked and looked at the three of them.
"Hello," Nyara chirped. "You meet Ark yet?"
"Yes we have, Nyara. He's very much a gentleman," Isabella smiled.
"Ark belong to Nyara," she said. Ark's eyes widened and he waved his hands in an attempt to get Nyara to stop talking. "Ark is Nyara's pet. Nyara sometimes have to feed Ark because he-"
"W-We've already been introduced, Miss Nyara," Ark squeaked, looking for all the world like a tomato. Shera threw her head back and laughed.
"Oh she's fantastic!" the Princess of Windhill giggled. "Nyara, you can tell me all about Ark later on when the boys go off and do their thing, all right?" Nyara nodded with a grin. Ark looked decidedly pale.

Once the travelers had their rooms sorted out, Shera bustled them into the palace sitting-room. As was the norm whenever they visited, Impa excused herself and went to have an "adult" conversation with Isabella and Morgan. Once the children were by themselves, Shera persisted in asking a veritable landslide of questions. The girls answered most of them, their mouths moving at a frenetic pace. Details of their exploits since Ark had wound up in Kokiri Forest were quickly relayed to Shera and she listened in awe. Details of fights and battles were met with gasps, cheers and reprimands aimed at the boys, especially at Talen and Link.
"How could you be so careless!?" she demanded. "You don't want to leave those three alone, do you!?" She indicated to Zelda, Fura and Florella. Link and Talen gave each other pained looks. Once Shera had been brought up to speed, the Princess was able to focus on the more trivial matters such as what everyone had been getting up to over the past year. Since Fura had missed out on the last Spring Festival, something she had been very, very angry about, Shera instantly began pressing her for information about what she had been doing. Fura then told her quite proudly that she was the new Gerudo Fire Witch.
"That's wonderful!" Shera squealed. "Why, with your new authority I bet you get all sorts of things." She glanced meaningfully at Link.
"Sadly, no," Fura sighed. "He's remarkably stubborn, but at least I get to help him out with getting the hang of his new magic abilities."
"That's right," Shera frowned. "That's why you're all…gloomy-looking at the moment."
"I think he looks very fearsome," Fura said defensively. Link looked at the Gerudo warily.
"Fura, please," he groaned. She laughed at him and blew him a kiss from across the room.
"That's what I like to see," Florella smiled approvingly. "Zelda, feel free to join in too."
"Will do," Zelda said, putting her hand up.
"Fantastic. You all need to start getting into the spirit of things…especially you, Talen," Florella told the smith. Shera nodded excitedly and clapped her hands together. The Princess of Windhill regarded Talen as a kind of legendary figure, as did a number of people that knew of his engagement to Florella and as such, Shera watched their interactions with great interest. A yowl from across the room caught everyone's attention. Nyara was fidgeting in her chair, her eyes fixed on Ark. The boy looked increasingly nervous.
"M-Miss Nyara…is there a problem?" he asked haltingly. Nyara suddenly leaped from her chair and straight at Ark. He didn't have time to get out of the way and the animal girl slammed into him and knocked the chair over backwards. She wrestled him around and began her recent trend of biting his ear. Ark pleaded pathetically for her to stop since they were in the presence of so many people, but she didn't seem to care. Shera was in stitches.
"Oh how sweet!" she squeaked. "Oh, they make such a nice coupling!"
"Wha-What!?" Ark yelped. "N-No! Miss Nyara is just looking out for my best int- ow!" Nyara bit down a little harder than she had intended. The air buzzed and Nyara's hair began to stand on end. She brought her head up and blinked just as Ark let out a torrent of electricity in a great panic. Nyara coughed and rolled onto her back as Ark struggled out from underneath her.
"Miss Nyara! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to do it again…it just happened!" he babbled, helping her up.
"That okay," she murmured in a daze. Ark allowed her to flop into the chair she had been sitting in before picking up his own and sitting back down. Shera watched the scene unfold with great interest.
"Well, well, well," she smiled. Link began humming the funeral march and received a cushion to the head for the performance.
"Don't start, Link," Florella told him frostily. "You're one big setback after another, but this is my time to shine. Come the day of the festival, you'll have nowhere to run." Link narrowed his eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked, also noticing that Fura and Zelda had very smug looks about them as if they knew something he didn't.
"You'll find out on the day of the festival. Now go and play while we all have some catch-up girl talk with Shera."
"Fine with us. Let's go you two," he told Talen and Ark. Nyara growled and moved to prevent Ark from leaving, but the straps from the Key shot out and lifted the boy out of the way and deposited him by the door. Nyara barred her teeth at Link and he quickly fled from the room with Ark and Talen close behind.
"Well he hasn't changed at all. Have you two been working on him at all?" Shera sighed.
"Well…we had a rather interesting little time on the ship over here," Fura chuckled. "Sit back and we'll tell you all about it."

"They can't be that bad…can they? Ark asked a little skeptically. "They're very kind to me."
"Of course they are!" Link snorted. "Because in their eyes, you haven't been "turned" yet. They're like a little coven of witches; cackling and scheming little schemes." Talen, Ark and Link had retreated to the safety of the roof over Link's room after going on a kitchen raid. The spoils of victory lay about them in the forms of sticky buns and pastries.
"By the way, have you been told what the Spring Festival involves?" Link asked Ark curiously. Ark shook his head.
"I asked Lady Florella and she only told me that it was a wonderful surprise and that I'd enjoy it very much. I'm quite looking forward to it," Ark responded cheerfully.
"No!" Link coughed. "Boy howdy do you have a lot to learn!"
"Never trust Florella, Ark," Talen told the boy somberly. "She's the most hopeless cheat and she does almost anything to make sure things go the way she thinks they should. Look at me." He held up the finger on which Florella's ring adorned. Ark looked decidedly pale.
"It's not anything…bad, is it?" he asked quietly.
"It's the most despicably evil celebration in any city anywhere," Link told him chillingly. Link and Talen then proceeded to tell Ark all about the Spring Festival and Florella's spell she cast every year. Ark listened carefully to their tales of Florella's dreaded spell and how it swept a tide of affection across Windhill.
"Think about the way Nyara "looks after" you now," Link told him. "Then multiply that by ten." Ark looked rather pale.
"I don't like the sound of this…" Ark murmured. "What if I talk to Lady Florella…she'll understand, right? She wouldn't cast it on me would she?"
"She'd do it in a second," Talen said flatly. "Florella's fuelled on the love between people; it's what keeps her alive. She thrives on any form of affection, but love is the most powerful. She casts the spell every year so that people may do things that they wouldn't normally do, you know, gives a little helping hand to what's already there."
"Th-This happens to everyone?" Ark asked.
"Oh no. Those who don't want to be a part of it are allowed out of the city while the spell is cast. Once it's over they just come on back; doesn't take very long at all."
"Oh I see," Ark breathed in relief. "Is that what we're going to do?"
"Oh no, we aren't allowed to," Link said with a shake of his head. "They've made a royal decree that Talen and myself cannot go anywhere near the gondolas during the casting of the spell. The operators were all brought in to memorize out faces so that they'd know not to let us off."
"S-So what do we do then?" Ark asked fearfully. "I don't, I mean…"
"Don't worry, Ark. We share your pain, but luckily we've found ways around it. Florella and the others are never very happy about it, but desperate times call for desperate measures," Talen murmured. "We'll help you out. We men have to stick together!" The three of them started laughing as they went through their bounty in the bright sunlight above the landscape.

Afternoon rolled by and the three boys were still lolling around on the roof of the palace. It was a lazy sort of afternoon and not one of them felt like doing anything particularly taxing. A soft breeze sighed around them, stirring their clothing and ruffling their hair.
"I can't move," Link mumbled drowsily.
"I don't want to," Talen mumbled back.
"I could just go to sleep right here," Ark murmured.
"Well you'd better not," Fura's voice told them sharply. There was a flurry of movement and the boys were quickly in their sitting positions. "So this is where you three have been hiding all day."
"Hello Fura, something you need?" Link asked with a yawn.
"Not really," the Gerudo told him from over the edge of the roof. "The others just wanted to know where you were. We opted against sending Nyara for obvious reasons."
"You have my humblest of gratitude," Link said with a sigh of relief.
"Are you coming inside now? Shera hasn't seen you for so long and she wants to have a chat," Fura told them appealingly. The boys exchanged glances.
"Why not?" Talen shrugged. The three of them slid down and onto Link's balcony along with Fura. Just as they stepped back through into the palace, Ark stopped for a second and looked over his shoulder. His eyes scanned the turrets and spires of the palace before he shrugged and zipped inside and caught up with his friends.

Back on the tip of one of the tallest spires, the black-haired girl stood with her arms folded across her chest. She had been watching Ark lying around on the roof with Link and Talen for the whole afternoon without moving a muscle. Seeing him leave, she snorted to herself and turned around with an expression that told she was making some sort of a decision. She suddenly seemed to reach some sort of conclusion before scowling and vanishing with a ripple of air.