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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[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."

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis nodded, and made sure he had as much as he could carry in his own basket. "I'll go out first, just in case."

It was another effort to keep her safe.

[stitch_witch]

"I am only agreeing to that because I've heard you have some form of teleportation," she lets him know. She should be protecting him, but she knows he can handle himself.

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis smiled. "It comes in handy."

He could do so with others too, such as when he had to save Sarah during his brief tenure with the aliens.

So he headed out slowly and cautiously, peeking around for trouble. After not seeing anything, Noct continued to head out, although he spoke in a low voice.

"Should be okay."

[stitch_witch]

Yes, it seems like it would come in handy. Not that she is jealous, she is glad for her gift.

She moves after him, happy to have him guiding. And, following her in mass, the glownies. It helped that Little Bear was racing around behing them to keep them moving. The dog had taken to work very well.

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis was thankful the little guys seemed to understand that something was wrong and that they needed to stay together. Or maybe it was just the baskets full of their favourite thing.

Either way, it didn't take long to get them to where they needed to go. And the king kept his eyes peeled as Prompto would say.

[stitch_witch]

Lark did her best to scramble after him fast as she could, trying not to let mint scatter.

"I hope this will not be a new regular occurrence. I heard people had visions of giants during a storm last fall."

[fatedsacrifice]

Noctis shook his head, keeping his eyes moving.

"I really hope not. This is really a pain." Mentally he finished 'in the ass.' But he wasn't one to swear in front of a lady.

"And ya I heard the same thing."

[stitch_witch]

Well that bodes ill for the future. At least they are getting further away from this one for now.

"Indeed. I would rather the city not be destroyed by all this stomping around."

[fatedsacrifice]

The king was quiet as they kept going. He knew he'd have to go home and then face Luna. Somehow he figured she might understand his actions.

Maybe.

So he just shrugged, trying to push the guilt away. "Really kinda liking this place. So I don't want to see it destroyed either." He took a few more steps and finished his thought. "Some people here don't have anything to go home to, so this place is all they've got."

[stitch_witch]

"Glad you're liking it," Lark says with smile. At least they are almost to safety.

"Is that true of yourself?"

[fatedsacrifice]

The smile that was on his face about her comment faded a little quickly when she pretty much got what he was saying, without him trying to come out and say it.

Might as well not lie, it didn't matter here so he sighed softly and kept moving.

"Ya, I don't have anywhere to go except the afterlife."

[stitch_witch]

"Then at least you have here while you have it," she says, offering a sad smile. The poor boy didn't deserve to have died so young.

[fatedsacrifice]

He nodded. "Thanks, I appreciate the thought. And even if it's not what I thought I'd be doing, I do appreciate another chance at having a pretty unstructured life. I mean, there's no expectations and it's just weird."

Sure he was allowed to be a regular kid but there were still those lurking future expectations that he got hit with.

"But what about you? What are you going home to?"

[stitch_witch]

How interesting, to long for the unstructured. She wondered what his life was like before to call for this as relief.

"The Temple. My apprentice and letters from the children. My partner Rosethorn."

[fatedsacrifice]

That had him stop and look at Lark for a second. "A Temple for mages?" He always thought temples were for holy people but he didn't know that much about her world at all.

The last had him smile. "It's good to hear you're going home to someone." That made him feel better somehow.

[stitch_witch]

"The Temple is not just for mages. But there are many mages of various levels among us," she answered with a shrug. "I am a dedicate initiate of my order. Dedicate means I have taken my vows. Initiate makes me as a mage."

Going home to someone indeed. She smiles to herself.

"To letters from her at least. She's on a journey with her apprentice."

[fatedsacrifice]

"Hm." Noctis replied thoughtfully after a few moments. There were no such things back home, but it was nice to think about. People would be learning things together and it wouldn't be so lonely for people that would have such a gift.

Hearing the letters, the king kept going but there was a puzzled look until she finished. "How long's that gonna take?"