Glimmer, glitter, shine...

[thecanopycrew]

| characters | Everyone!

| date/time | March 15, all day

| location | First Floor

| rating | Currently G

| summary | A flash of light, and a new adventure.


LIGHT

Warmth, love and kindness.
The Life Stream glimmers and glitters with joy, swirls of shimmering dust dancing around the ray of life.
It was time for new ones to test their wings.


One by one, new adventurers now arrive in the Tree. As one gain wings and rises to the second floor, another light brings in the next person. Soon, a steady stream of people from all kinds of worlds, times and realities come to join the others. Whether confused, angry, excited or scared, your arrival is welcomed with nothing but joy as the fireflies and glow worms descend to greet their new friends.

The Tree offers no explanation and no reason, but the truth is undeniable.

As you will soon realize, it isn't easy to be tiny.

Comments

it's funny because he literally flew

[forhyrule]

Zelda was a woman of a great many studies, but few opportunities for practical application. She knew quite a bit about bird- and insect-flight from her studies of Hylian fauna as a child and could still draw a fairly accurate diagram of how the different wings worked. But try to put that into practice and nearly all of Zelda's knowledge was lost in the transition.

With her attention on the firefly, the princess didn't notice that another newcomer had also ventured outside the tree. The firefly, as if in answer to Zelda's request for lessons, slowly lifted the two halves of its protective shell and spread its glossy, delicate wings. Zelda leaned a little closer, watching carefully and holding her breath. After a minute, the firefly folded its wings down and covered them again. Its feelers twitched in Zelda's direction, as if to say, "Okay, now you try."

Zelda straightened and took a step back. Gripping her gemstone tightly in her right hand, she pursed her lips and attempted to unfold her wings. Open... open... open... was the only thought she allowed inside her mind. Trembling slightly, the top wings lifted up and opened to their fullest extent.

Unfortunately, the lower wings merely twitched and remained pressed against her lower back.

"You make it look so easy," she remarked to her insect tutor. "I'll never make it back inside if I cannot figure this out." Zelda cast a wistful look up at the tree and sighed. "Perhaps I should build a ladder instead."

She wondered idly if learning to build a ladder would actually be more difficult than learning to fly. There was simply no easy way out of this predicament.

s-sobs...

[twilightlegend]

This time he knew he heard it for certain. There's another person out here and she was above...? Except he wasn't entirely sure what he was expecting - maybe it was but a figment of his imagination that he heard the princess' voice - but it certainly wasn't actually spotting Zelda herself. Though their current situation with Link on the ground and her atop a tree root (... a tower) was certainly reminiscent of their first meeting.

There was a marked difference this time around: Link was himself and not a beast.

"Princess!"

This was her right? He wasn't seeing things? It hit him a second later than he may not be able to jump up there, but he could use those wings he was given by the tree to reach her. At the very least...

At the very least, he had to make sure that she was unharmed.