"As I am sure you can all see, I have my sister and considering all the bruised ribs I probably have, I am more than happy to kill her. So listen to me or I will more than happily snap her neck. Or give her to my friends here, and who knows what they'll do to her." Karrah said, motioning to Ganondorf and Ren. They both frowned, confused about what was going on.
"Tova, what are you doing?" Carras hissed. Karrah didn't turn around to look at him.
"Trying to get their attention. And it's Karrah." She took in another breath and addressed the audience that was slowly growing larger, "I'm sure that those who know me know me as Tova, but I don't know how well you actually knew me. I don't know if I even know who I used to be, but it is all together possible that I lost my memory as a way of gaining Ganondorf's trust so that I could try and make peace between our people, and even if that isn't the way things were then that is how I want things now. These two people aren't as bad as you all probably think them to be, even if they can be slightly rude at times and refer to us as noble whores," Ganondorf raised his eyebrows and looked at Ren, who looked about as convinced as Ganondorf, "Sure, they had me locked away for a while, but I got to know them. Well, I got to know Ganondorf, I got to see a side of him that I doubt many of his enemies get to see. He isn't that bad and he wanted to help me. Now I want to help him. Enough of our people have died, enough of his people have died. What good will it do if you kill him?" Karrah looked around at all the faces below and Impa snorted.
"I doubt that this little speech of your will work. Look at how unconvinced they look." Karrah sighed and thought for a moment.
"Someone once told me that it doesn't matter who you were yesterday, and I believe her. In what few things I can remember, Impa and I used to be quite close. Now look at us? I'm threatening to kill her if you lot don't listen and I broke her nose and kicked her butt. Now look at Ganondorf. The first time I met him he scared me, terrified me really. And now he's pretty much one of the best friends I could ask for. As for Ren, well, I've said things to her that I regret more than anything and wish I could take back. Look at yourselves. You probably want to see all of us except for Impa get hanged, but what good will killing us do? You kill Ganondorf and then what happens? The Gerudos will want revenge and they will quite possibly kill Impa. And then guess what will happen? You will want revenge on the Gerudos. It's a never ending cycle and eventually you will all probably be whipped out. Do you actually want that to happen? I know I'm not someone who you really want to listen to, I know I'm not very charismatic, and quite frankly I'm about as terrified now as I was of Ganondorf when I first met him. I'm asking you, one sheikah to the rest, listen to me. I don't want to see any more people die." Karrah untied Impa and looked her sister in the eye. Impa glared at her.
"You realise I should just kill you."
"Then do it. Kill me and have it all over and done with. Kill all of us and start a war that no one can come back from. Cause the death of all your people. No one could save you from that. If Ganondorf dies, then everyone you know and care for will die," Karrah took a step back and held her hands out either side of her, "Kill me. Get it over and done with. It removes one more problem." Impa looked like she was thinking about it and Karrah swallowed.
"What are you doing?" Carras asked, watching Impa cautiously. Karrah shook her head, not saying anything. Impa took a step forward.
"Are you seriously willing to die for these people?"
"Oh yeah. Confuse you?"
"Just a little, considering you at least used to have a great judge of character. I just don't know if you can still be trusted."
"Evidently some part of you does, or I'd probably be dead by now. For crying out loud, Impa, please listen to it. I don't want to die and I don't think you want to kill me." Karrah felt like she was going to start crying if she had to wait much longer, she was so terrified. No one said anything and Impa looked back around at the sheikah who stood around watching.
"I suppose we could give this peace thing a try." She said, stepping over to Ganondorf and holding her hand out for him to shake. Ganondorf looked at Karrah, a bit unsure about the whole situation. Karrah nodded and grudgingly Ganondorf shook Impa's hand. Karrah sat down, all the strength from her legs gone. Ren laughed and Karrah smiled, looking at her.
"Anyone told you recently that you're insane?"
"That's what you think of all of us isn't it?" Ren joked. Karrah looked out at all the sheikah who were looking like they had just witnessed someone going insane all of a sudden. Carras held down his hand to Karrah and she took it, letting him help her to her feet.
"Evidently you are the brains of this operation."
"I make things up as I go along with no backup plan. I don't really think that's very smart."
"Two plans in one day which you made up as you went along, and both worked. Either you're reasonably smart or incredibly lucky." Carras said. Karrah shook her head.
"Then I must be lucky," She looked back over the crowd and frowned, "I'll be right back." She said and walked off the platform, pushing her way through the crowd. She looked around the back streets of the town and spotted a red headed girl smiling from a corner that wasn't visible from the stage.
"So you did listen to my advice." Nim said, looking mildly smug. Karrah shrugged.
"It was a good piece of advice, even though I could tell you were struggling to keep your grammar good."
"It is a perpetual struggle of mine." Nim smiled.
"You should really go and see them. They miss you." Karrah said. Nim raised an eyebrow.
"Dragmire and Ren? I can't. If I did then I quite possibly wouldn't be able to get away again," She shrugged, "I know how Dragmire can be. He'd find a way to make sure I'd stay."
"Why can't you just see them? What happened?"
"Just some stuff. Look after them for me will ya?" Nim asked, fading back into the darkness and before long Karrah couldn't see her at all.
"I don't get why you don't do it, you're their friend too you know." Karrah said to the darkness where Nim had vanished. She returned to the crowd and looked up at the stage where Ganondorf, Ren, Impa, Carras, and a few others were talking. She smiled. It wasn't every day you stopped a full out war from starting, and she was feeling pretty good about it. Carras looked up and caught her eye. He smiled and jumped down, starting to make his way over to her.
"Well done." He said.
"Don't make me say something cheesey, I think I've said enough cheesey things for one day." Carras laughed.
"Yeah, probably."
Author's note: And that's all, folks! Hope you enjoyed it. Hope the ending wasn't too cheesey for ya.
