Different Things To Save

[stitch_witch]

WHO: Lark, Noctis, Link
WHERE: Livestock Nursery, Somewhere in Eastern Temba
WHAT: Lark needs saved from monsters, and later Links tunic needs saved from stains
WHEN: Beginning and end of monster hunts
WARNINGS: N/A

I. Rescued In Time | Closed to Noctis
Earth trembles weren't so strange a thing that they immediately roused Lark from sleep when they were so... limited. She's survived a great earthquake in recent memory, so he wasn't shocked to have slept through whatever was going on now. That she'd managed to slip to the pens where the glownies were kept, where the creatures whickered with distress with something else.

Apparently she'd been lucky enough to make her way over when the Bearger was wandering elsewhere, but now she could see the thing looming in the distance.

"Oh dear," she said, her voice a touch concerned. That was... a bit larger than most things she'd had to defend herself against in the past. What was she to do?


II. What Are You Wearing? | Closed to Link
Truly this had been quite the experience, hadn't it? Monsters terrorizing the city on quite this scale was a new one for her, and Lark was a bit emotionally shaken. But she had been gotten out of the main area of risk and sent off to find her own shelter. Something she was coming out of now that the power was back and people seemed to be reporting success on the network.

"What a dreadful thing that was," she said with a sigh as she straightened herself a bit and stepped out onto the street. She needed to check in on people, be certain they were okay. And make more bandages if needed.

If only she knew where to find them.

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[newmemorywhodis]

Link, as it turns out, isn't too hard to find at all. After his own encounter with the terrible moose slash goose, he's making his way back to the Hotel. Link being Link, he does this not at a leisurely stroll but by running at full speed everywhere and leaping over any obstacles in his way.

He does slow when he spots Lark, however. Gives her a quick "Hi."

This might also be the point where Lark notices that Link - and everything he's wearing - is an absolute mess. He's covered in dirt and grime, thanks to that one time when he fell of the mgoose. There's a few stray bloodstains. And feathers. Lots of feathers, from something very large, now stuck in his clothes.

[stitch_witch]

"Oh dear!" Lark says, hand coming up over her mouth before she can stop herself.

What a mess the man was. It was hard to believe. What had happened to him?

"Are you alright?"

[newmemorywhodis]

"I'm fine." And he was, really! Sure, he had a few bruises and scratches from being knocked about by the mgoose. But it was nothing too bad. Link had suffered worse before.

He does, however, then look at Lark with a faintly embarrassed air, one arm anxiously scratching behind his head. "Do you know how to clean clothes?"

Since right now, they very much needed it. And Link no longer had the korok pack, which always seemed to magically clean his clothes for him...

[stitch_witch]

What? She stares for a moment. The man is clearly injured and has been in a fight and his concern is... his clothes?

"Yes, of course," she says, so confused and mildly distressed.

[newmemorywhodis]

Well, fights and injuries for Link are normal. Day to day events, event.

But laundry. Laundry is a whole new, entirely unfamiliar challenge. One which, thanks to the mgoose, he needs to get a handle on right now.

"...Can you show me how?"

[stitch_witch]

"yes, of course. Are you okay?" she asks, because that feels so much more pressing. Was he injured? Whose blood was that? What had happened?

[newmemorywhodis]

“Yes,” he says, because being banged around really wasn’t that big of a deal. “There was a bird deer monster. It’s dead now.”

[stitch_witch]

There is so much to unpack in that statement, and she doesn't know where to start.

"I see. Well then, we should probably get going to the ships then, so you can get those clean."

[newmemorywhodis]

"...The ships?" Link asks, because that was not where he expected any cleaning of clothes to happen. If anything, he'd thought maybe they'd go to the lake.

[stitch_witch]

"Of course. That's where the laundry machines are. They do save me so much time with cleaning."

IT had been a relief to see higher technology for that end.

[newmemorywhodis]

"Laundry machines?" Link says, curious. He didn't realise such a thing existed. What would a laundry machine be like?

Immediately, his mind pictures a Guardian at a river, using it's long spider-like mechanical legs to repeatedly dunk in a piece of clothing.

[stitch_witch]

"Yes. Machines that wash and dry clothes," she agrees, leading him toward the hangar. Clearly he intended to keep following her. "I believe they work by spinning clothes through water."

[newmemorywhodis]

Okay, now Link's picturing a Guardian dragging a piece of clothing in circles in a river, rather than just dunking.

"...With legs?" he says, as he follows her. Surely even if this machine doesn't look like a Guardian, it must have some kind of mechanical appendage that does the spinning?

[fatedsacrifice]

With whatever the hell was going on, Noctis hadn't been able to sleep. Something made him feel off, and he had kept looking over for Gladio who had gone off.

Noctis wanted to go with him, but had a feeling something was going to be off everywhere, so his first thought was to go check on his new little four legged charges.

Getting there, Noctis saw Lark and he made his way over to her side, before realizing what she was looking at.

Smiling at her, the king nodded. "Bigger they are, the harder they fall."

[stitch_witch]

"What a horrifying thing to consider," she said, the words almost a whisper. Could someone not envision the fact that when that thing falls, so much could be crushed under it?

"Oh, it's horrible."

[fatedsacrifice]

Noct shook his head. He'd definitely seen big things back home and fought them too. The one that scared him the most was the trial he had with Leviathan although Titan had scared the hell out of him too like the mindflayers that made him sick to look at.

Sighing, he looked at the thing and silently wished his shield was here with him. However, the king knew that Gladio was no doubt helping other people at the moment and Lark was here needing his.

"If you look at it that way. I guess the guys and I back home had a warped sort of view regarding fights."

Like Ignis and his looking forward to coffee after the battles.

[stitch_witch]

Warped view regarding fights? She doesn't know what to do with that, it just makes her feel uncomfortable to consider what might be coming.

"My concern now is being safe."

[fatedsacrifice]

"We'll be safe." Noct replied, gauging the distance between the two of them and the oncoming train wreck.

Actually he'd keep her safe and that was of course priority, as it always was.

[stitch_witch]

"That's a good hope to have," she said. She still looked concerned.

"Help me. We can gather baskets of mint and that could be used to lure the Glownies somewhere safer."

Because of could she could not imagine leaving them in danger.

[fatedsacrifice]

For a moment, he wished he could just herd the little guys, but he did as Lark told him. She knew these cutie pies far better than he did.

His eyes watched the menace still a bit away and he then looked back at the mage. "Let's get going."

[stitch_witch]

She did know them well. Though she wasn't responsible for their food based names.

But she nods and runs for the food shed. Better to do this quickly.

[fatedsacrifice]

Noct turned as Lark ran and he kept the mental distance between them and whatever was coming at them. He had to keep Lark safe as well as the little four legged charges because they were innocent in this too.

But once he determined that nothing would be an imminent threat, he ran after the mage. Once he got to the shed, he grabbed a basket.

"Hope they don't take long to get the idea of following us around."

[stitch_witch]

"Here," she says, already piling mint into his basket. Once she's got enough in there for the glownies to be interested, she starts to make her own.

"With mint I don't think that will take too long for them to do."

[fatedsacrifice]

"Alright, you're the boss here." Noctis replied easily enough. It was just a matter of rounding up the little guys and keeping them safe? Noct could do that. He'd had more impossible missions.

[stitch_witch]

She was, in the moment. This wasn't something she wanted to be in charge of though. She wished there was a fire dedicate around though.

"Alright," she says once she has her basket filled, "let's go."