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[When the video flickers on, it's set next to one bare grey foot. There's a voice quietly humming, and a shift knocks the SFC to give a better view.

Mituna's sitting on one of the steeper parts of the island's coast, holding a large conch shell to his ear as he hums along to the tune he can hear inside it. He's looking out over the sea, eyes fixed on the horizon, the blustery wind whipping his hair up.

The tide is coming in, just visible in the corner of the video, but if he thinks that's a problem, he's not moving. It's just as likely that he hasn't actually noticed.]

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Maybe.

[He works one slim finger into the shell, feeling around.]

You thee it?

Nu-uh. I guess it's magic then. You wouldn't be able to see a spell, after all.

[Logics.]

Magic?

[He narrows his eyes doubtfully, pointy teeth denting his lower lip. It's on the edge of his mind to say magic doesn't exist, though that's mostly something he says to poke fun at Cronus, but something stops him this time. This place.. this is magic, isn't it? It has to be.]

... What kind of magic?

Music magic! Music can do all kinds of things like change day to night or make it rain or warp you to places. It can even let you talk to people far away if you know their song.

[He pauses, his enthusiasm dampening somewhat.]

At least, that's how it works where I'm from. It doesn't always work here.

[Mituna blinks, looking a little blank for a moment, then one corner of his mouth quirks and he shows off a few more of his pointy teeth in a half smile.]

Where are you from?

I'm from Hyrule! It's really green and there's forests and rivers and everyone's peaceful, usually. My Master tried to take it over but my brother stopped him because he's a hero.

[He smiles right back at Mituna.]

You're from Alternia like Psii, right?

[He doesn't try to repeat it, but slowly mouths the word around his too-large teeth. Then, at the question, he shakes his head.]

I'm from Beforuth.

Beforuth- I mean, Beforus? I didn't know trolls could come from two places! I guess it makes sense though, since humans can come from different places. Like Jade is from Earth but Ion was from Auldrant. I wonder if there's Hylians anywhere besides Hyrule.

[He should think on this for a bit.]

Maybe I could ask Zelda about it.

[He shakes his head a little. 'Alternia' is a name he's heard from the trolls that appeared in the bubbles with them, but it's not one he knew of before then. It floats in his mind as a half-formed thought, occasionally connecting to things for a fleeting moment (as most of his thoughts do, these days, somehow managing to maintain the façade of an almost-functioning individual.

Rather than go on about the names, though, he asks another question instead.]

Who'th Zelda?

Zelda's the princess from where I'm from. She's really smart and amazing at almost everything and can do all kinds of magic and stuff. She even saved me from fading away.

[His smile changes in its quality, looking more wistful, perhaps a bit more fitting to the Hylian's physical age.]

I think she's going to figure out all the mysteries of Vatheon, and then everyone will be able to come and go as they please and no one will have to say goodbye to their friends or family here.

How'th thhe doing that?

[He's looking at Sola intently now. It's a miracle, he's actually fully engaged with a conversation!

For now, at least.]

I don't know, I just know she's trying and she'll succeed because she's Zelda.

[And that's that. He has unwavering faith in her.]

I want to see Hyrule, but I don't really want to leave Vatheon. I want to live here for good. What about you? Do you miss your world?

[Mituna pauses at that, thinks a moment, then gives a jerky little shrug.]

I don't know.

[He spent so long dead in the dream bubbles, he doesn't really remember what Beforus was like. Of course, there's a lot he doesn't remember.]

You don't know?

[Does that make sense? Wouldn't you know if you missed where you're from?]

[He shakes his head.]

Don't fucking remember.

Oh... well, if it makes you feel any better everything I remember from Hyrule isn't actually my memories, they're my brother's memories, so I kind of don't really remember either.

[It's okay bro, we all got problems.]

What d'you mean?

[Chinhands. He's interested.]

Um... well, I'm a replica. I was made from magic by my master only two years ago but he made me to be older so he took memories from Link - the person I'm a replica of - and gave them to me so I would know how to fight him. Only he killed me because he was better but then Master Ganon killed him and then we were both here and decided we didn't want to fight and we're brothers instead.

[Confusing enough yet?]

[Okay there's.. a lot there that he doesn't understand. Mituna pulls a face and scratches the back of his neck.]

... The fuck are you talking about, buddy.

[At that reaction, Sola seems to retreat a little, looking chastised.]

I-I'm sorry it's confusing... I don't know how else to explain it though...

[He squints a bit. There were a lot of long, unfamiliar words in all that.]

... You're dead too?

[That part, he got.]

I was. The bubble brought me back.

[He looks a little pained at the memory. In the split-second before the bubble gathered him up, there had been nothing. Not nothing as beings can comprehend, but literal nothing, the absence of himself on the fabric of creation. He has no soul, no spirit to speak of, nothing to carry on to any other plane when he's expired. Death is the most terrifying thing to Sola.]

...'swhy I don't ever want to leave...

[If it sent him back, he may return to that state of terrifying nonexistence. He doesn't want it.]

Me too.

[Granted, his death hadn't been the same as Sola's. It had been long, occasionally tedious, but at least he'd been aware, and he'd had his friends around him.

For what that was worth. Have you met his friends?

He likes it better here.]

Well then we won't! We'll stay here forever and have fun, okay?

[Sola smiles broadly. He knows that the bubble could send them back whenever it feels like, he's not oblivious, but when you have no control over the situation like that sometimes you have to lie to yourself.]

Let's be best friends, okay?

[Maybe the entire scope of the situation isn't clear to Mituna. Maybe it is, and maybe there's no real way to be sure, but he can understand something like that. He grins widely, showing all his pointy teeth.]

Ok, thure!

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