in_sidon_we_trust | Tabantha Frontier, Hyrule. [12/26].

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Tabantha Frontier, Hyrule. [12/26].

Early the next morning, after breakfast and arranging horses to make the trip far easier and swifter, the group set off across the Hyrule Field, to the northwest, toward the sweeping plains and steep mountains of the Tabantha Frontier, home of the Rito, Hyrule's proud and musical bird race.

It would be another long journey, but hopefully one well-worth the travel, with more than enough to captivate the visitors on the scenic and exciting path.

[[Day Three has really gone to the birds! *clears throat* OCD ~~on the way~~ is up!]]

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If Nina thought she could play the avoidance game forever without Vette coming to hunt her down, she had another think coming.

Why yes, that was Vette sitting herself right down beside her, crossing her arms in front of herself against the chill and frowning.

"So."

So.

Oh, ugh. It wasn't surprising, really, after yesterday's misstep--she'd been, like, super obvious about not wanting to be around them--but ugh, Nina didn't want to do this.

Nina considered getting up but short of flinging herself off a ledge, she wasn't sure it'd be easy to lose Vette.

And she didn't really want Vette flinging herself off a ledge after her either.

She just sighed, instead, and said, "Go away??????"

Vette's lekku twitched and her frown deepened. She did her best to keep the sting off her face, but that... wasn't happening, apparently.

"Why? What did I do?" She turned to look at Nina, at a loss. "You have to tell me, you know! You can't just avoid me for a week like we don't have to share a room together when we go back!"

Uuuuugh.

"You didn't do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina said, crossing her arms defensively over her chest. "It has nothing to do with you at all!!!!!!!!!!"

Except it, like, sorta did? Kind of?

"I just want to be alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Well, I don't," Vette complained. "You're my best friend, you know! It's bad enough the Zora girls are being weird about me and Sidon, now I have you being weird over... I don't even know, but the least you can do is tell me so I know why I'm dealing with this poodoo alone!"

"You hadn't said anything about the Zora girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Yeah, Nina was absolutely going to try and avoid this conversation being about her. Absolutely.

"Because you've been avoiding me," Vette pointed out. "When was I going to do that??"

"I don't know," Nina said, rather resentfully. "You could've, like, called or something!!!!!!!!!"

That... that wasn't about the Zora girls.

"Are you kidding me? Is this about the animal shelter thing?" Vette looked at her like she'd grown a second head. "Really?"

Nina huffed and looked away.

It was, but it also wasn't, and that was where it got messy.

"You were out fighting things already," Vette pointed out, muttering. "If you're going to be mad at me for blasting some snowmen..." She frowned a little. And then exhaled. "Nina, I don't get it."

"It's not you," Nina repeated, though she didn't look at Vette, still, and instead just drew her knees up to her chest. The edges of her diary were a solid, soothing weight. "It's, just, like... he called you!!!!!!!!"

And not her. And she had a stupid voicemail saying it wasn't that he didn't trust her.

"Because he knows I can pick a lock," Vette said, exasperated. "Because I'm an untrustworthy pirate, Nina."

"You're not untrustworthy at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina snapped back. "Otherwise, he wouldn't have called you!!!!!!!!"

"He trusts me to break into his room to get a blowdryer!" Vette turned to glower at her, blowing out a breath. "And then when I got there with it, it was cold and there were kittens."

And the kittens had been great.

"This is why I didn't want to talk about it!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina complained. "You didn't do anything wrong, but I'm still mad!!!!!!!!!! He trust you more than me and then you spend all that time with him and I have to find out on the radio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"It's not like I'm interested in him or anything," Vette shot back. "I mean, I'm dating Sidon!"

And that was apparently a crime too, if the way Tula and Tona had gone on was any indication.

"I know that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Nina wailed, tangling her hands in her hair because oh, my, gosh, this was giving her such a headache. "But it's, like, he doesn't even think of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He'll think of you!!!!!!!!!!! And it's not even--even just as friends we're, like, so far apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And it hurt.

It was stupid and it was unreasonable and it hurt.

"Then tell him that!" Vette pulled her knees up to her chest, wrapping her arms around them, her lekku around her shoulders. "I'm... I'm sorry your feelings were hurt, but you can't just..."

She huffed out a breath, pressing her face into her lek.

"I mean, you can, obvously. You are. But it's not fair."

"Because it's stupid!!!!!!!!!!

Nina was, in fact, self-aware enough to know that.

"All of this is stupid!!!!! It's all in my head!!!!!!!! Who, like, cares if other people are better friends with each other!!!!! Who cares if other people get it more???????????"

Except that she did care. An awful lot.

"You get things more," Vette muttered into her lek. "There's a reason you're my best friend. You get me. But I... I can't not be friends with people, either. I don't have anyone if I don't have my friends here."

She swallowed hard, and then shook her head.

"I can go. I don't know what else to do."

"Don't go," Nina said, though she didn't really know how to fix, like, any of this. "It's not you, okay????? Or even that you have friends that aren't me??????"

She blew out a breath.

"Like, I don't even know????? I'm just mad, so I didn't want to--you guys just, like, I don't know... no one really needs me??????"

"I need you," Vette yelled, still... into her lek, yes. "You're my best friend here! Prompto is an amazing friend too and Sidon is perfect but you were the first person to learn Ryl for me. You share your clothes with me you helped me learn to read I told you about my family we stole a ship together, how could you think I don't need you!?"

Nina flinched.

"How am I supposed to know????????" she said, her voice small. "Like, no one ever has."

So seeing other people make bonds and be friends and become irreplaceable to each other was something she was used too.

But this was... this was the first time she'd ever made bonds like that, and she didn't know what to do with them.

"I'm telling you," Vette protested, balling into herself a little more. "So... so now you know, okay? I don't know what else I'm supposed to do."

The answer was probably not 'cry,' but there was a hitch in her breath anyway. That was fun. That was a great time she really wished she wasn't having right then.

"This is stupid. We asked you to come along because we wanted you along. If you're going to avoid us, what are we supposed to do? If you tell me to go away, am I a better or a worse friend if I don't?! It feels... like... like there's no right answer to that, Nina. It feels like a trap."

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