Yes, this one's kind of short, but really, the first few were really long for me.

What's wrong with Tina?


The girl, Tina, once she'd defeated the man, had collapsed for no apparent reason. Rusl and Uli rushed forward, the first to carry her and the other to fuss. Uli put her hand to Tina's forehead, exclaiming how she couldc't really tell whether anything was wrong.

"Link, go get Renado. Now!" she commanded. He obeyed without question, whistling for his horse, Epona. Tina was carried into Rusl's house and laid on a bed. Within minutes, she was awake and put a hand to her forehead and a hand to her side, where she'd fallen.

"What just happened?" Rusl asked. He and Uli were at the front of the crowd who'd piled into their house.

"I'm not sure," Tina groaned, starting to sit up. After a second, she started to stand, but Rusl put a hand on her shoulder.

"You'd better lay down for a few more minutes at least," he said. She obliged, swinging her legs back up. Aerrow brought in the curious article of clothing and pushed his way to the front, bashfully thanking her.

"Thanks for covering me back there."

"Are you kidding?" she replied, "That was all my fault and I'm so sorry." However, she took the shirt and wrapped it around her bare shoulders.

"What's this about you being valuable to that guy?" Aerrow asked.

(Change POV)

I heard the guy with the crossbow comment to someone else, "Yeah. If that guy in black knew who Aerrow was, then he might have rethought that."

"Well Aerrow," I started, putting two and two together in milliseconds and realizing that Aerrow was the red haired guy's name. He looked confused, so I explained, "Thank your buddy over there." I pointed to the back of the crowd, then yelled in that direction, "I can hear you know!" Then I got on with my story.

"I've come from a world where everyone has a shine—"I broke off suddenly and looked down at my hands. They weren't glowing anymore. "You may think I'm crazy, but anyway, my shine was apparently very beautiful by their standards, and gave me power. I'd been schooled by a rich man who literally took me off the streets, but he abandoned me soon after seeing a man with blond hair, but wearing black. This new guy's shine wasn't really a shine at all. He absorbed light, and got himself the name, the Shadow. He took me down underground, along with a friend I'd picked up, named Ben, and locked us in a dungeon where the only light were our shines. I'd just fallen asleep when the Shadow trapped me inside my dream and brought me here." Confusion seemed to echo around the small hut. "But, at the moment I'm not even sure I'm still in a dream."

Questions were thrown in front of me like slices of ham, and I just tried to answer them. "So the guy who brought you and almost killed Aerrow is the Shadow?" To which my answer was yes. "And you won't be able to get out of here without him?" Probably. "Will he be able to help us get home?" I dunno. "Are we all a dream?" I dunno at this point in time. "Where's Ben?" I'm not sure. I sighed, and realizing just how much I didn't know, Rusl helped clear everyone except himself and his wife out so I could 'Get some rest'.

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Both adults went around cleaning up their home for the few minutes before Renado got here to check me over. When he did get here, I found out he'd been given Epona, Link's horse, for speed and Link wouldn't get back for another day at least.

When he got in the tent, I saw him to be dark-skinned with thick lips and almost black dreadlocks. He wore robes that reminded me of Aboriginal or First Nations clothing. He looked at me and placed a hand on my forehead.

"Do you know why you would have fainted?" he asked me. I repeated my story to him, and he nodded slowly, seeming to understand. "There is nothing wrong with you right now. However," the word resounded around the small room. "If you faint again, then you must come to see me for a little while."

I closed my eyes, groaning inwardly, and could only hope that it didn't happen.