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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"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."

And... and Nina was sort of resenting that Vette had come up to her, when Nina hadn't wanted to talk, and was making it all about herself, when the whole reason Nina hadn't wanted to talk was because this was all in her head and stupid.

She hadn't wanted to upset anyone; she'd just wanted to be mad for a bit.

"Don't cry," she said, more softly, in Ryl. "Vette, you didn't do anything wrong. You're my best friend too. I'm just stupid."

And giving up on her issues to make Vette feel better. Sure.

"You aren't stupid," Vette barked out, in Basic. "Stop that! You're scary smart. You learned a language in weeks. You took an entire new world and you're understanding it, better than I am, and... I mean, I'm not stupid."

She was... pretty sure.

"If you needed space you could have said something, though," she added, a little resentfully. "Don't just... just leave me wondering what I did. For days. That's cruel, Nina."

Nina shrugged a little, looking down.

"I didn't think you'd notice," she admitted, honestly, since... yeah. "Like, with this trip and all..."

"It's my first trip ever to my boyfriend's world," Vette muttered. "It's big and new and it's full of adventure and it's beautiful and of course I wanted to share that with you. I mean... duh."

"Nothing 'duh' about it to me," Nina said defensively.

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