Two Worlds Meet

The was no discussion about their course of action, Ronran was already halfway to the gate where the voices—and smoke—came from. With the Seeker offering a clear advantage, fire as a severe disadvantage to Rutilah, Maple's uncertain combat experience—especially in the dark, and amid flames—and Linkle's poor condition, Zelda felt herself to be the natural accompaniment of the Sheikah. She turned to address the others as she followed Ronran, "You two stay here, Maple, help Rutilah protect Linkle if a monster finds you here! We'll handle this...somehow."

She heard Ronran shouting as she ran up the shadow she lay over the gate blocking the path forward. The Sheikah urged everyone to run to the gate, though when Zelda entered the area of the burning village, the violet haired warrior was struggling to pass a couple of moblins to reach children cornered by other monsters.

"I'll handle these, keep them off the gate!" Zelda shouted as she rushed past the moblins that currently blocked the Sheikah's path to the children, the intense glow of the flames was blinding like the Seeker's, but the monsters seemed unaffected by it, they probably weren't bothered by the dimming light as dusk settled in, either.

Zelda rushed to the nearest group being bullied by a couple of moblins—she didn't know how the kids could survive the power of the club carrying blue moblins, but she was glad they did. She sent out shadows of her rapier to float over the children's shoulders so she could protect them on their way to the safety of the gate Ronran protected, "I'll handle these monsters, run to the gate, my friend will keep you safe!"

Ronran quickly expanded her shadow and drew back in to get an idea for where the monsters were, then swept them gently with her broom's straw end, when no kids cried out she turned the broom and used the other end, a shadow edge grew on the blade and she sliced through the three monsters.

Zelda glanced down at her side when she heard hurried steps, when she confirmed it was a child, she turned her eyes back to the area around her, attacking from afar with shadows, focusing on keeping the monsters off balance, "Is everything alright? You should go over-"

"Big sister's still inside!" The boy cried, pointing a shaking finger at a collapsing hut.

"Go to the gate, Ronran will protect you." Zelda instructed, patting the child's shoulder before running towards the fire, reaching towards her shadow and threw it forward, falling to one knee as she split her focus between what was around her and what was around the shadow. Through it she could hear a weak cough, she temporarily froze the shadow and zipped it around a few corners before finding the girl, who apparently slid a dresser under the collapsing doorway before collapsing.

Zelda stood and turned swiftly, ran a lizalfo through and used her foot and a quick draw back to shove it down the blade of her wooden, shadow covered rapier. Once she was done, she turned back around, closed her eyes, and held out her hand. She made the shadow slip into the room with the girl and blanketed the shadow around her, then made it break through the window. Spikes emerged from it, under the point where the child was.

Instead of impaling the moblin behind her, it wrapped around the arms and legs, pulled the limbs back while the part of the shadow holding the girl folded, let the princess take her into her arms. She stumbled around the moblin, used it as a shield against another two moblins, who whacked their fellow monsters into Zelda, sending her rolling away with the child in dissolving shadows. When she came to a stop, she found herself under the moblin, shadows barely keeping it's weight off her.

"D-Did he...get out okay? My...brother...did he escape?" The girl wheezed, struggling to open her eyes.

"Yes, but it's not over yet, you still have to get back to him!" Zelda urged, groaning as the moblin got up to it's feet, "I wonder...did my brother get out okay? I'll have to see with my own eyes..."

The moblin raised its club above her, Zelda leaned over the child she rescued and held out her rapier, preparing to strike the club out of its hand with a blast of shadow, though she doubted she could be so precise. Before the monster could bring down its weapon, the Seeker glowed brightly, made the moblin cry out and stumble away, blinded. She got up to her knees and raised the Seeker up, trying to extend the reach of it's light as she turned her shadow into a sheet and floated it behind Ronran.

Once the girl was safe, she scanned the area for more children, there was one striking blue moblins in the head with her slingshot, luring them from the huddled group of kids under a shed, among bushels of fruit as fire closed in on them, "Get out of here!" The girl cried, as she sailed down on a vine and stabbed a with a stick that somehow didn't break, "Go on, they seem to be on our side!"

Zelda stumbled forward to provide support, staring at the green haired girl—she was different from the others somehow, she looked taller than the others, but there was something else Zelda just couldn't put her finger on, until she remembered the wide eyes of the children who ran from monsters, the boy who asked her to save his sister, it was in their eyes.

While the children all had deep blue eyes, this girl had eyes like a vibrant sunset. She didn't seem old enough to be the leader of the village, at the very least she was just a few years older than the other children—maybe the adults were further inside? She tripped out of weariness, held up the compass to protect herself against any monsters that came her way when she caught herself on her hand, "Run this way, the monsters can't get pass this light!"

The princess took a deep breath as the kids ran past her, watched as the girl stopped most of the monsters from following her friends with vines that whipped out from the trees and pulled the monsters back, a cloud of leaves whirled around them, leaving them blind and bound. The strange girl roared as she jumped into their midst, drew her blade and spun through the air, "Samara Draaaaaw!"

She drifted down as she spun faster and faster, the monsters cried in agony, pulled and threw themselves against the vines but they held the monsters until the green haired girl landed and sheathed her blade, "Thank you both for aiding the other villagers...the one by the gate is with you?

"Yes, and there are three others." Zelda breathed deeply as she rose to her feet, "One of them is in bad shape...her soul needs healing."

"Well, for now she'll be fine so long as she stays here and away from these monsters—oh, hey, one of your friends!" The green haired warrior announced, pointing at a blonde girl who had just broken through the woods and was now tossing sand at the fire burning in the thickets.

"I...didn't come here with her..." Zelda watched curiously as the girl poured out white-blue buckets of sand that floated around her, often melting and merging them into the orbs of water around her, which she also used to combat the fires, especially the more distant ones. A crew of sailors followed her orders to fan out over the village and smother the large flames first, they ran past her to return to the beach and fill their buckets again. She was certainly the girl who had fought with Linkle and Princess Rutilah in the Water Temple to restore Lord Jaburu's power and burn the corruption from the sea, but now she had the Zora's Sapphire around her neck, "Captain Aryll?!"

Aryll turned and waved at the princess when she heard her name called, "And you're Princess Zelda, right? My crew's on the way, we've got this fire!"

The green haired girl grinned at the news, scarlet eyes shifting briefly to the captain, though she turned to run down the path at the other end of the village, "Well, well, looks like the village may yet be salvaged. Hey, my name's Sharia, by the way!"

"My name's Zelda," The princess replied with a polite nod, "Ronran, it looks like there's more to be done, I'm following this girl now!"

"Alright, great, take the path up the hill immediately to your left when you enter the upper village, I'll be on the main path!" Sharia ordered as she held two fingers together and saluted the princess with a playful wink and a wry grin before bounding off into the flames, cloaked in a green aura.

"Who's this Sharia person?" Ronran asked as she caught up with and followed the princess.

"A girl...seems to be running things around here...actually, she reminds me of Captain Aryll...odd running into both of them here." Zelda mused, finding it even more odd that—no sooner than she left Zora's Domain and traveled through the Sacred Realm with Linkle—both Rutilah and Aryll arrive at the same forest. It had to have been fate that led so many determined people together, they could grow stronger, one of them had to be the Hero, and with so much support, the Hero would be able to end Ganondorf's reign of darkness!

"It's odd running into this many people here." Ronran remarked, smirking as she thought back to the girl who had started off as Linkle's protective little sister, "It's odd that Sharia's in charge of this whole village...and all children seem strangely...composed, now that I think about it."

"I know!" Zelda cried as she led the way deeper into the village, into the billows of smoke and ash. She was glad she wasn't the only one who found it strange that no adult had been heard or spoken of, "It can't be that all the villagers are children, can it? The adults must have kept the monsters from getting into this side of the village, Sharia must've been supporting them until they sent her back."


There were monsters gathered around a tree, surrounding a group of children. Sharia raised her hand and drew down a vine that shot down and wrapped around her, then rolled back up and brought her onto a broad limb. She raised up her hand and took a deep breath, "Spirits of Nature, Guardians of the Blessings of Life, rise up! Let us now return the scourge to the void from whence they came and protect our home! Avatar of Life!"

"That voice-!" Zelda fell silent as Ronran's head bowed, eyes closed, and finger raised up, "He can hear her...? I don't even see—ah!" Zelda marveled as a giant suit of armor fell from the trees, resplendent wings like a fairy's and sharp spikes on the torso with a sword as black as night.

"What is that?! Those moblins didn't even have a chance..." Ronran muttered, witnessing the giant armor that struck the monsters down in one strike, whether or not they were guarding.

"Unbelievable, isn't it...this must be a guardian of the Eternal Spring." Zelda murmured, leading Ronran by the hand to find somewhere else they were needed, "Impa spoke of them once...they drive off intruders and guard those seeking refuge in the forest."

"Looks like the situation's well in hand, here, then." Ronran observed, following the princess up a hill. The smoke grew thick in the air, not enough to start wearing away at their Hearts, but enough that Zelda's vision was impeded, "I can lead from here, Princess...I hear screams up ahead." Ronran held up a hand to lead the princess through the smoke, "I wonder where Sharia's wandered off to? I don't hear her voice...that was her when we walked in, right? Calling on the 'Avatar of Life...'"

"I think so...distant, but I can't think of anyone else...but I don't know them well enough to know if there are others with similar voices." Zelda held her arm over her face, she could the smoke was growing overwhelming, she couldn't see where they were going but it couldn't be much further now.

"I see nothing that resembles an armory." Ronran reported, shaking her head, "There's no way they're making more swords for anyone, so where did she find her weapon?"

"I want to know that, and how you already searched the area...isn't that difficult?" Zelda cried, shocked that even with the fire, Ronran sent out a shadows to sweep under the area.

"Well, I can't see where I'm going, so I'm not confused by the view from the ground that I'm walking on. I feel like I'm closer to the shadows now that I rely solely on them to guide me." The Sheikah explained, "It's the only benefit that sword gave me besides my search for it leading me to you and Linkle, to this village. Maybe I'm a fool, maybe I should've let go sooner..."

"I'll try the blade myself when we're done here, if something's wrong with it, we won't be able to use it against Ganondorf...perhaps it's related to the death of the Sages...or Ganondorf did something."

Ronran growled softly, neither scenario was amiable, she didn't know how anyone would use the Master Sword in either case and didn't know if Zelda had any ideas either. She shrugged the worry off as she dropped off the ledge, out of the smoke and onto the back of a moblin, this was a more pressing situation, one she could handle. She caught the jaw of the monster with her broom and drove a dagger into the moblin's back, manipulated its shadow so it fell away from the children it had cornered and crushed the smaller monsters behind it.

Zelda fell onto a bokoblin when she landed, so when Ronran stepped out of the way of the other moblin's club, she jumped onto it and ran up to the monster's hand, up it's wrist to forearm, then lunged for the place its heart should be and dug her shadow-bathed dagger into it. With her broom she parried its arms whenever it tried to knock her down while the shadow around her dagger extended and dug deeper into the monster, when the shadow of her dagger erupted through the moblin's chest, it stumbled back and fell, she kicked off it and landed in a crouch, broom raised to whirl over her head and repel the monsters that tried to take advantage of the fact that she wouldn't be able to recover her balance immediately after riding a moblin down into the monster horde.

Ronran twirled her broom over her to knock back the four or five bokoblins that surrounded her, then jumped up and landed behind Zelda, who was dancing between a few monsters, eyes closed as she focused on the shadows of the monsters to "see" all around her, "I've got your back, the monsters are currently more interested in us than the children!"

"Speaking of them, how are they so...tough? I'm glad for it, I really am, but they're just kids, yet their Hearts are so strong!" Zelda observed, taking the offensive against the few monsters that had kept her on her toes, "Ronran, retreat to the children!" Zelda cried, following her own advice as the titan that she and the Sheikah witnessed butcher moblins landed behind them.

The suit's sword drove down into the ground, blackness poured out around it, carried the remaining monsters towards the blade, ensnaring them in the weapon as it rose again. Rupees fell from the blade once it had withdrawn from the land, signifying the destruction on the monster hordes, then a voice came from the giant armor, "Great job, you guys!

The princess stared up in confusion until the heart of the guardian was exposed, the black plates seemed to melt, revealing the girl with wild green hair leaning back on a spider's web. The position of the guardian's mirrored her arms and legs own limbs, as though she directed it, "Sharia! What are you doing inside the guardian?!"

"Huh...oh...I'll explain later, for now there's monsters to protect the village from, the others are safe in the belly of this 'guardian' but there's still monsters running around, I can feel it! Anyway, time to hop inside the armor, guys!" The titan's stomach melted, revealing wearisome children.

Zelda and Malron exchanged a brief glance before walking under the legs of the giant, standing before the wall Sharia had constructed, and the princess called out to her, "Great work, Sharia!"

"You two, too, Zelda, Ronran!" Sharia shouted back, lowering her hands to scoop up the children as one uncertain princess glanced back and one weary Sheikah kept one shadow connected to that of the giant hand, watched as the children eagerly climbed aboard, awash in relief as they fell into the holding space of the benevolent monstrosity.

"Alright, Zelda, she's put the kids inside the armor...the wall's about to come down!" Malron alerted Zelda, readying her stance and weapons."

"I'm ready..." Zelda assured, watching as the wall melted to the floor, then struck the monsters that stood behind it, "Sharia, send us in the direction of the next group of children!"

"This is everybody! Let's get out of this forest before it burns down or wears down my construct! You two don't have to run on foot, you know!" Sharia urged, leading the princess and Sheikah, trying not to outpace them without giving them a warning, "I've gotta get the others to the lower village..."

"Kargaroks! We'll stay on foot and clear anything in your way!" Zelda pointed out giant, tropically colored birds flying over the crowd of monsters, in their talons they carried more giant moblins, most of them were blue, "Ronran, start walking to meet them halfway...begin charging your shadows at one, and on three, jump and swipe at the monsters! One...two...three!"

Ronran drew back her broom and began gathering shadow around her weapon as soon as the princess began counting, she heard several yelps as her shadow cut through the airborne monsters, though she was starting to get a feel for the shadows around her without even trying, and the shadow of everyone she knew took on an individual form in her mind, with the princess' assistance she was able to get a feel for this sense, gaining an understanding of the feeling of the strength carried in the shadow, compared it to her own, as well as distance, and through distance, speed and direction.


After a while, the witch and Zora grew anxious of waiting, "I don't hear anything...I'm gonna go and check it out." Maple started towards the gate, mimicked the shadow skill she saw used when her master—who she thought used the technique—and Zelda went over the gate.

When she landed on the other side, she was surprised to find a large group of children stoically watching Aryll and her crew fight fires, monsters, some monsters pouring fire from their maws, "Hey, does anyone have a deku stick? It doesn't have to be a stick, just some-oh," Maple smiled as her eyes fell on a rake that had been half charred, knocked over, and half buried in sand.

She rolled it over in her hands, she had never felt something that powerful before, and was worried if she'd be able to handle it, she could barely control a regular broom. Hoping the fire burned most of the magic off the rake, she poured her own energy into the rake, levitating it, and turned to sit down on it, anxiously watching the children as she suddenly left the ground, much too suddenly.

It seemed the fire had not taken out much of it's magic, or it did but was still more powerful than a broom. She counted herself it had been so roasted when she found it, she didn't want to think about what it would've been like at full power, though she had to wonder if the fire didn't just make it more unstable; the rake released short bursts of energy during the ascent that threatened Maple's balance, but she held on until she could see the ocean.

Maple held out her hands, trying to balance on the rake that felt like it'd come to life at any moment as she reached out to the ocean, intending to pour a steady stream of water onto the fires below, "Stream, Steady Spout...Shatter!" She held out her hand to aim at the fire, while she had a white knuckle grip on the rake with her free hand, "Just use the invisible lines coming from the tip on my thumb when it reaches the height of my forefinger's second joint...and don't make any sudden movements...and ignore the rake's sudden movements!"


Aryll was surprised when it seemed to start raining, she glanced up and followed the downpour to the source, a familiar green haired witch gathered water from the ocean and created a shower of rain that covered an increasingly large area, "Always knew you had it in you, Maple...but what are you doing here? Maybe Syrup sent her for something...well, at least we can focus solely on the monsters now!"

A thunderous thudding grew in the distance, Aryll watched her crew and monsters alike scramble off the path deeper into the woods. Two figures emerged from the woods, a Sheikah and a princess, but a giant suit of armor was close behind, significantly broadening the path before turning back around to face the monsters pursuing it, and then a voice cried out, "Avatar, Battle Finale!"

The voice seemed to come from the giant armor, for when it cried out, beams of darkness raced towards the monsters. The suit melted, left children huddled together, aside from one, who seemed to be in control of the crumbled suit, causing its remains to rush into the monsters while the fragmented wings danced all around them, keeping them where they were until the suit was gone, most were dead by that time, those that weren't found themselves engulfed in the remaining darkness, when it dispelled there were no monsters left.

"What was that?!" Aryll cried, running up to the green haired girl who stood in the midst of the children, arms outstretched, "Was that some kinda dark magic?"

"Dark magic?" The girl turned around, gave her a confused frown as she regarded her, "I don't know what world you're from, but around here people—is she gonna be okay?"

Aryll turned around and winced when she saw Maple in an unstable descent, sometimes dropping into a free fall, the witch and rake shuddering until lowering more smoothly.

"Uh, hang on, I'm gonna help her down!" Aryll turned around and closed the distance between her and the witch, then sent a column of air up under Maple, "It's alright, Maple, I can help you down! Just don't worry about it, you're completely safe if you fall!"

Maple nodded stiffly as someone ran up beside her, "Captain Aryll, thank you for helping my apprentice." Ronran bowed briefly before rising again, turned to Maple, "Are you alright now?"

"Y-Yeah...that rake's powerful...can I please have my broom back now, I can give you this in return...here, hold out your hand, the rake-y end is on your right...where no one's standing." Maple informed raising the rake in offer to the Sheikah, who returned the broom in the same manner.

"It's good in a pinch." Ronran observed, considering the unconventional weapon she had borrowed.

"Good? Good?! That thing nearly killed me...I could barely control the it! I mean, yeah, it worked, but I wouldn't want to have to use it all the time!" Maple ranted, referring to the rake.

"I believe we're not talking about the same stick here." Ronran mirthfully snorted at Maple's confused hum.

"That's incredible..." Aryll remarked, surprised when Ronran's eyes shifted back to her, "you're fighting, but...I...I don't understand-"

"The shadows give me power, protection, perception, all I need is a little perseverance." Ronran said, turning back around, "My vacant gaze can even see the Zora carrying Linkle, our Hero."

"A Zora and my sister, huh?" Aryll took a nervous breath as she gazed in the direction that Ronran was heading, following along uncertainly. She turned to Maple, who seemed to aimlessly stumble along after, still stunned by the peril she voluntarily threw herself into to put out the flames, "So...why she's carrying my sister...what happened that led either of them here?"

"Your sister will be okay." Maple assured, "She was with Zelda, the two escaped the Sacred Realm together...Linkle's soul is a little torn up, but she can be healed here."

"The Sacred Realm...how did they find their way in there?" Aryll dragged her gloves off her hands, sighed when Maple frowned, gave a slight shrug, and uncertain sigh, "Whatever the case...she has the Seeker, that shouldn't have happened...actually, the exact opposite should have..."

"The Seeker?" Maple turned to Aryll, lips drawn into an inquisitive frown.

"That compass Grandma gave her, the one that's supposed to be magical...it's true, I saw it in action." Aryll ran up ahead as Ronran's arms raised and shadows were drawn together, floated over the gate and landed. Aryll felt...something—her chest tighten when Rutilah floated just above the gate her face just visible. She released the breath she hadn't been aware of holding when Linkle came into view, in Rutilah's arms. Aryll almost didn't hear Maple or turn to her when the witch explained what she had seen upon meeting up with the others.

"Princess Zelda has that compass now, she seemed tired...but she was in better shape, so I guess it really does work...the Sacred Realm's was corrupted...I didn't know a whole world could be corrupted," Maple shrugged lightly, more for her frazzled nerves than anything, "never thought that the Great Sea could be corrupted either, though...I guess nothing's safe, even if it's sacred."

Aryll turned briefly to regard Maple, let her know she heard, before training her gaze anxiously on the Zora and her sister as they floated on Ronran's shadowy raft, over the gate, back down again. She nervously approached and carefully looked over her sister.

After finding no sign of wounds on her sibling, she let Ronran approach arms extended in a silent offer to take Linkle and followed the Sheikah with her eyes for a little while, Maple went with the blind Sheikah, attentively watching each step to make sure the path was clear.

Zelda approached them turned to Aryll and Rutilah to make sure she had their attention as well, "Sharia's insistent that we don't worry about rebuilding this village, or the temporary shelter, this time is yours, and no one has to stay here for tomorrow's march into the upper village if they have other matters to attend to, though any help is more than welcome."

When the captain turned to the gaze upon the Zora's face, a sting of emotion came as she tried to push them back, "Are you and the Zora's okay, Rutilah? Um...you talked with your dad about...what your mother said?"

"Things aren't great, I need to go back soon...but I can't do anything from here." Rutilah whispered, moving towards the somewhat clear path that led to the beach, "I was worried, back then..."

"You didn't know, then?" It was only for a brief moment, but Aryll was sure she had seen the Zora's lips twitched downward as she shook her head, "I thought you had been forewarned about the Gerudo ambush and knew to give me the Zora's Sapphire."

"If I had known, I would've followed you...if...I had known everything would be alright back home." Rutilah's voice cracked, she took a deep breath, "You and your sister...really should have been able to rest for a few hours first."

"We kinda specialize in danger, I guess." Aryll chuckled sheepishly, "You wanna know how many times she wandered off trying to find firewood, only to discover skulltulas that Malron had to save her from? So many that I lost count, and that was before any of...this. Gotta introduce you to Mal one day."

"Yeah...I want to see your home one day...hopefully it's spared from...darkness and fire." Rutilah murmured reflectively, sitting on a grassy slope that overlooked the beach, the sunset tinted ocean.

"Hey...um, I'm probably not gonna get another chance to use this again unless I want to gather water for some reason, so I'll go ahead and return this now..." Aryll drew the gold chain necklace up over her head, collected it in her palm, and offered it to the Zora, hoping it helped with the Zora's apparent homesickness and her own mixed feelings about keeping it, knowing what it symbolized, "You'll need this back someday, right? I think that day should be today, cuz right now you...seem a little homesick."

"Homesick...I wonder if that's what this is?" Rutilah mused, her voice cracked as she reluctantly accepted the Zora's Sapphire, "You know...back then, I was worried about giving this to you, how you might feel if I showed you how I feel, I just had to give it to you, though, just thinking that you don't have it makes me feel so lonely, which is funny, because I'm used to it by now! But then I met your sister, you and...you just make it so hard to be alone."

"You shouldn't have to be alone...you're not now, you know that, right?" Aryll nodded laid a hand over the princess's as Rutilah stared wistfully at the Zora's Sapphire, "I know, it's not easy getting used to something new...before all this, I wouldn't have been able to believe that Linkle would one day protect me, or that I could...imagine thinking of anyone but that girl when I consider the people I want to live for...who I want to protect. Imagine how many times I visited Zora's Domain and we only now met."

"I wish we could've met sooner...but I wouldn't have willingly made myself vulnerable to your words and thoughts back then. 'Hold every pure thing in your reach and love it with abandon, even if it's fleeting.'" Rutilah murmured, laid her free hand over Aryll's fingers, delicately held it between her hands. The princess's cheeks reddened as she sought out and held the captain's gaze, she gingerly raised the back of Aryll's hand to her lips, a cool blue light poured out from between their hands; neither noticed it. Rutilah cleared her throat nervously as Aryll stared wide-eyed at her, "Apologies, I-"

"It's alright...I'm sorry, I just...you're beautiful..." Aryll admitted, blurting out anything in hopes she could relax the noticeably anxious Zora, who giggled softly at her remark, "I...I'm not thinking straight...did I say something funny?"

"Not at all...I'm happy you think so, I was a bit worried...ahem, a lot worried." Rutilah corrected herself, "Aryll...will you accept the Zora's Sapphire, with my love?" Rutilah leaned closer, turned around to face Aryll, heart pounding in her chest as she strained her ears for the slightest whisper.

"I will...R-Rutilah...put the Zora's Sapphire on me?" All the blood and warmth seemed to go to the captain's face when the princess leaned in closer, a shy smile on her lips as she moved to do just that.

Aryll's hand slid out from between Rutilah's, let them guided the necklace over her head and down around her shoulders. The glow hadn't diminished in the least, they both noticed it, marveled at it for a moment, but neither mentioned it. The girls held each other close for a few moments, and Rutilah drew a surprised breath from Aryll when she kissed her cheek and murmured softly, "I love you, Aryll."

The captain seemed to hold her breath so as not to wash out anything the Zora might say and let it out only after Rutilah finished, "I love you, too, Rutilah."

Rutilah slipped her palms into Aryll's, though she released one after a moment so she could turn and sit beside Aryll, they watched the last of the light faded from the skies and dusk settled in. The sun set behind them, behind the trees, a multitude of stars emerged in its absence.


Author's Notes: All will be explained! Until then, we have Artilah...or Rutyll, their ship name can go either way.