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[palewanderer]

[ there is a girl staring intently at your face.

or... well. the amount of girlhood is debatable. if you're the ordinary sort, with no magical powers or senses and about the average amount of impure thoughts... yes, she's just a girl. a wild-eyed girl who looks like she desperately needs to be introduced to a hairbrush, but just a girl. those with magic senses or a pure heart, however, can see the glittering horns branching up and out through that wild hair, and the fur and scales decorating the sides of her face and the rest of her body.

she continues her wide-eyed and unfocused perusal of your face for several more seconds, and then huffs a disgruntled breath out through her nose, like you've personally disappointed her.

(unless you happen to be (a) Link, in which case: you are getting your face touched by clawed hands as her eyes somehow go even wider. you may not want to resist! those talons are impressive!) ]

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[palewanderer]

[ probably doesn't help that she's all but bursting at the seams with light magic. like, literally, girl is glowing between her scales.

she echoes him with a soft, startled "ah" but doesn't let go, a furrow developing in the furry spot between her eyebrows as she looks the rest of him over. ]

Not... him. You're not.

[theshadowturnedhero]

[Its definitely giving him a headache, but when it comes to Zelda's light, he's learned it isn't meant to hurt him. Mind over matter is sometimes very real.]

[He's squinting at her, but...it's there. That uncanny valley of movement he's seen in the Forest....]

Zelda....?

[palewanderer]

[ there's no visible recognition in her (extremely weird) eyes, but she does blink, that furrow getting deeper ]

No. ...You're not... a puppet, either.

[ it's not quite a question, and as she says it she gently lets go of his face. ]

[theshadowturnedhero]

[He breathes in sharply at that.] If course I ain't a puppet!

[palewanderer]

[ tilting her head ]

It wouldn't be a bad thing... Puppets have uses. They protect the one I am looking for.

But you are not him, and you are not his.

[theshadowturnedhero]

People ain't puppets.

...who are ya talking about?

[palewanderer]

[ hums, but doesn't disagree; it's more of the sound one might make when they don't have enough information to make up their mind one way or another. ]

The one I am searching for.

[theshadowturnedhero]

....are ya...

Are ya Zelda?

[Stepping back to look her over. Trying to get over the skin crawling feeling of the puppet comment.]

[palewanderer]

[ sorry, buddy, sometimes the main context you have for "looks like x person but isn't them" is sage avatars and Ganondorf fuckery. (and, through them, your own projected body. "puppets have uses," indeed.)

she wrinkles her nose a little bit, tail swishing once ]

No. That person...

I've seen her. But we aren't the same.

[theshadowturnedhero]

[Definitely no feelings about any of that.]

So yer...related? A magical construct?

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[palewanderer]

[ related... ]

This body is a construct, yes—

[palewanderer]

[ . . . ]

Oh. We are related.

[theshadowturnedhero]

...so both.

And yer...

[He looks her over and-]

Wait.

[He steps closer, looking at the scales.] Those are dragon scales. [He's seen them up close, okay. And Lizaflos. He's seen a lot of reptiles up close to tell.]

[palewanderer]

[ one long, slow blink. she might be processing some sudden revelations. ]

...Yes. ...Do you want one...?

[theshadowturnedhero]

...wouldn't that hurt?

[palewanderer]

The other dragons weren't bothered when they were harvested from.

[theshadowturnedhero]

But are ya bothered?

[palewanderer]

...I don't know. I haven't had scales taken before.

[theshadowturnedhero]

Why would people want her scales?

[palewanderer]

They have my magic in them.

[theshadowturnedhero]

That sounds ill advised to just give out to people?

[palewanderer]

...It heals. Why would that be "ill advised?"

[theshadowturnedhero]

You're a powerful dragon, ain't ya? Can't people abuse yer magic for their own ends?

[palewanderer]

[ she huffs out through her nose ]

They may try.

I will not allow a... mm. A maybe. To keep me from helping— my people.

[theshadowturnedhero]

Yer people? Because yer related to Zelda, or something else?