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WHO: Link and you!
WHERE: The diner, various locations
WHAT: Link watches a mountain, and catches up with a few people
WHEN: After Calibrations
WARNINGS: Violence for Wesker's thread

i. Food glorious food [open]

There's a few things Link does right after getting out of Calibrations. Run around in a circle bigger than the waiting room. Climb a building, and then jump off of it. Jump into the lake, just for the hell of it.

But there's two things of real note he does. The first is change from the cozy winter clothes Lark made him into the light, breezy Gerudo Outfit he arrived in. With this much warmer weather, it's a lot more suitable. But it's a much more feminine look than what Link's been wearing before now.

The second thing he does - after doing a little hunting and gathering a few ingredients - is head straight for the diner and start cooking.

He makes fish pie. Apple pie. Meat stew. Sausages and creamy mashed potatoes. Glazed meat and pepper steaks. All the meals he made in the Calibrations dreams - except this time, they're real.

He brings them out into the diner. Sets them all out on a table, for others to share if they would like. Then grabs a bit of everything for his own plate - and settles down to eat with a happy sigh.

ii. Hylian dressup simulator [closed to Lark and Zelda]

Link does, of course, like wearing his Gerudo Outfit. It's nice being pretty, nice to wear shiny things that glitter and jangle musically. It's nice, for when he feels like being a vai.

But Link doesn't always want to be a vai. And he doesn't want to wear the Gerudo Outfit all the time. So he was already planning to ask Lark to make him something else that he can wear in this kind of weather.

And then, Zelda arrived. With only one outfit, and one not suited to this heat at all. And suddenly talking to Lark wasn't just something he should get around to at some point, but something he needed to do right now.

In his usual fashion, Link does not bother to knock on Lark's door. He just arrives with Zelda in tow, opens the door, and walks right in.

iii. Gotta shield them all [closed to Ash]

With this heat, Link decides that later in the afternoon - when the sun's gone down enough to take at least a bit of an edge of the heat - is the best time to start teaching Ash to use a shield.

He brings Ash to dunes just south of Temba. There's space to move - and dunes that they can use later, for shield-surfing.

Once there, he holds out his left arm - once which has the bracer Tony made attached to it. On his back he has a second shield - one made by Dustin - but it's the bracer which Ash will be using.

"Watch," Link tells Ash, as he balls his left hand into a fist. Brings it back up against his chest, in an emphasized flick. A soft hum, and the bracer actives - creating a hard light shield, in the shape of slightly squat oval with a ridge down the centre.

This is what Link wants Ash to learn how to use.

iv. Rocks fall, everybody...does not die? [locked to Wesker]

Link had just been hanging around on the top of a building when he spot the man, just down below. The one from the Calibrations dream, right before they'd been released.

The dream had been more than enough to show Link that this man was dangerous. Not just because he'd immediately moved to kill Link in the dream. Because also because of the memories he'd seen - ones that showed that this man was a killer.

He's right below. Just next to the building Link's on. And there's a few loose pieces of stonework up here.

He grabs one. It's large - bigger than Link's own torso. But not so large that Link can't lift it up, and drop it down below.

Down where it should land right on the man's head.

v. Wildcard!

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“Not always.”

Some dreams were nice to visit. And he met some new people.

"Really?" Radley blinks in surprise.

“I liked Gladio’s,” Link says. “He had weapons.”

Some of the things he’s learned were…sad, yes. Upsetting, because they were difficult things Gladio had to deal with. But it hadn’t been so bad, to learn about them.

"Oh, I see," Radley says. Yeah, he could imagine Link would like that. "How did everyone else feel about the experiences?"

Link shrugs. He's not other people. How could he know how they felt?

Radley thought they might have said.

"Well, I hope they found things they liked too," he says. "Most of what I've heard from some of them sounds terrible."

Link hums. "...I hoped they liked dinner," he says softly.

Sure, it had been dream food. But he hoped the people who had visited his room liked it all the same.

"Dinner? I thought there were only protein packs to eat," Radley says in surprise.

"In my dreams," Link says. There, there was food. Even if it wasn't real.

"Oh. Was it like this?" Radley leans back. "I would have enjoyed a dream like that."

Link nods. Though he does offer one small point of clarification.

“Not all at once.”

"Ah, I see. Did you have any control over the dreams?" He's still not sure how it all worked.

Link...frowns.

"I'm not...sure?"

There had been...something different, about the experience. He was in his dream. He was him, but he was also...not him. A dream version, of himself. And can you ever really control a dream?

Radley wonders if the details were different with the Agrii. Who knew what they could do.

"It sounds really trippy."

"...Trippy?" Link says, head tilted to one side. He's not really familiar with that particular term.

"Strange," Radley explains.

Ah. That made more sense.

"...Yes."

Definitely strange.

"I'm glad you're all back," Radley says.

Link nods. He was glad to be back. Or at least, not in Calibrations anymore.

(He'd rather be back home. In Hyrule, with Zelda. But that's not an option).

It's at this point that Link has - amazingly - managed to eat his way through everything he'd piled onto his place. But from the way he's eying the leftovers still piled up on the table, he's clearly considering seconds.

Radley would rather be home too. But for now, he's happy everyone he knows here is safe.

He's amused to see Link is still not full. "You'd get along really well with Scotch back home," he says. "He loves to eat too."

There is always room for a second helping.

"...I like food," Link says. Though it comes out sounding more like "Ei ike ood," since he was busy stuffing his face as he said it.

Radley is also pretty good at translating food talk.

"We're agreed on that," he smirks.

Link nods - and while at this point he falls silent, there's a pleased air to him as he continues to eat.

He's not the most talkative of people; most people pick that up pretty quick. But he still enjoys just being able to sit and eat, with someone else who likes food too. He doesn't need to talk to enjoy the company.

Radley likes this silence. It feels pleasant, unlike the cold silence whenever he had tried to talk to Kalin back home. That silence had hurt. This silence is peaceful.

He gets a second helping and continues to eat too.

Probably a good thing Radley doesn't mind this kind of silence. With Link, it kind of comes with the territory. If you don't like the silence, you won't like him.

The silence lasts while Link eats. And then, with the second helping Link sighs, content. Takes a moment to digest. And then gets up, getting ready to leave.

There's still plenty of food on the table. But Link's happy for those to be shared by anyone else who visits the diner.

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