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[A twinge of embarrassment leaks onto his face as he pokes at the fire, not looking back to her.]

Oh, uh... [that was a loaded thing for her to say... Link doesn't know the answer to that himself, and Zelda aggressively wondered the same thing for a long time. He doesn't want to violate any of the Princess' privacy either; if Vriska is asking him something like this, then Zelda couldn't have told her the entire story.]

...I wish I could answer that for you, but I can't. I'm not sure myself.

[Without looking at her, he reaches over to grab the filled soup pot and lightly rifle through the items piled at the top.] Do you like frog legs?

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Alright. I'll be outside my house in Flavo all day. If you don't wanna eat with your hands, bring tableware

[Link's cooking spot won't be difficult to spot - he's sitting outside by the dirt road that snakes in front of his village cabin and there's a plume of smoke rising from the campfire he built on top of the dirt.

When Rin arrives, he's got assorted items and cooking ingredients strewn about in the grass beside him, and a large soup pot sitting on rocks piled carefully within the fire, filled with slowly boiling water.]

No haha, I'm used to not having any... sorry. See you soon

[Whenever Maribelle arrives at Link's house, she'll find him sitting in the snow-powdered grass, nursing a campfire that he'd built on top of the dirt road leading there from the other districts. A circle of rocks were placed carefully around the fire to help contain the flames. Beside him is a soup pot and a large pile of assorted food items.]

[ Oh, whoa. No, she hadn't really known how loaded that question was when she asked it, and his reaction visibly surprises her. ]

... she seemed pretty happy when you got here, that's all. [ She'll leave it at that, letting him move the subject along, though deep down, she burns with curiosity. What's up with that???? ]

I honestly cannot say I've ever eaten any piece of a frog. That sounds gross!

[Not used to having any?! The hell kind of bodyguard are you?!

Begrudgingly, Maribelle eventually arrives, carrying a knife, fork, spoon, and small plate. She tries to keep a positive face on, at least.]

You are Link, correct?

[Being the one who runs the cafe in town, tableware is easy to pack up along with some extra food he figured he could bring along just in case. The smoke does give the location away once he gets to Flavo.

He approaches in a few seconds at a jog, a backpack on, sword in its deep blue sheath and clad heavy hoodie with Pacman on the front in yellow. He lifts a hand in a wave, figuring this to be the guy he was looking for.]

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[Link is curious, too - he wants to know more about what Zelda's been up to without him here, as it doesn't feel proper to him to ask her something like that directly. And this Vriska seems to know Zelda pretty well. Maybe he can bring it back up later.]

Really? You might like it. Wanna try that first?

[He removes a small, paper-wrapped item from the soup pot, crusted slightly with frost. Inside is a dead but fresh-looking frozen frog, about the size of a baseball, mottled green and brown. Without hesitation, Link picks up a sharpened stick from the ground beside him and stabs it through the middle.]

I could put a little something extra on it for you. I found some herbs in the woods we could test out.

[Link looks up instinctively when he hears the clink of metal. It's Rin, from the other day. He smiles and waves back and eagerly wonders what tasty things he might have brought with him.]

Hello! Good afternoon.

[He rises to his feet politely to greet her with a nod and a smile.]

That's me. Although I forget whether I asked your name or not, miss... please forgive me.

[He points to a small chair he'd pulled outside when she said she was coming over, so she doesn't have to sit in the grass like he was.]

[Almost like clockwork, Chrome had been plunged into another bizarre situation at the same time new people arrived in the well. That meant people needed assistance at the well, and Link had started to make his way there - until he realized his footsteps were freezing the ground beneath him, and that whatever he touched was getting frosted with a layer of ice. Not to mention the shimmering light blue cocktail dress that had appeared on him out of nowhere, and the snowman-shaped puppets that blipped into existence around him, bowing respectfully before blipping away again.

This is weird. He's not really embarrassed by the dress, but he's worried that the uncontrollable ice stuff could hurt somebody. So instead of heading to the well as intended, he peeled away and walked towards the Bluo district, with its long network of canals that opened up into the harbor. If anything was safe to freeze indiscriminately, it was water, right?

He's been here for three days now, making trips back home at night to sleep and coming back the day after. It's been a good excuse to explore a part of town he's never in, at least. This morning, he takes a seat on the edge of one canal, his legs and dress dangling over the edge. Sure enough, ice cubes start to form in the water below him.

But then there's bubbles, too. Huh? Is there something in the water?]

The fault is also mine.

[Hand to chest, slight bow.]

I am Maribelle.

[there, with that said, chair sat! At least he got THAT right...]

[Lots of things! All of them tasty!]

Hey. So, what you got? Made it sound pretty interestin' on the forum.

It all depends on what you want me to make, really. But... First, tell me what you've got.

[Link is just too curious to jump directly into the spiel he'd recited to a few people already. His eyes sweep up and down Rin's body, looking for whatever it is.]

Your cafe smelled pretty good the other day when I visited.

Pleased to meet you, Maribelle.

[He sits back down once she takes her seat - although more accurately, he lowers to his knees so he can lean over the fire.]

Thanks for volunteering to be my food guinea pig. Any special requests?

[ ritsu's spent the last couple of long hours in a crisis. he didn't want to do it, stab even to a puppet that just looked like his friend because god knows what dark arts are at work here and it might afflict him directly, but ritsu had just about enough of suffering on his feet and knew he had to end the story. yet, the story ended with the princess dying? so. now what.

his best bet was, perhaps, imitating the method and just hoping for the best. it wasn't dawn, he was a bit impatient to get this over with, so he had tossed the knife with all his strength (and a little psychically assisted extra) and plunged himself into the water, and awaited something to change.

and something did. it was getting even colder than it already was why did the world hate him

ritsu spurts out of the water beneath link's feet, fingers trembling and holding himself for as much as that means in keeping him warm. (read: not much at all.) much like his hour of arrival, he was a soaking child with long hair over his face in a dress, glaring upwards at a stranger. did you do that on purpose!? ]

[She doubts he can make stuff she REALLY wants...]

Hm... what would Lady Zelda enjoy?

[ Watches him, tilting her head in curiosity at the frog. Eventually she grins at him and shrugs. ]

Sure! Why not. I came out to volunteer for whatever the hell you came up with, after all! What kinds of herbs did you pick up?

[Wow, right to the point. Rin doesn't mind, though. He was always happy to give people something good to eat.]

Oh, yeah! I made some rice bowls with deer meat and mushrooms. Simple stuff but I haven't picked up supplies in a coupla days.

[He needs to do that when he has a chance soon.

He takes the bag off his shoulder and opens it up, revealing some mismatched containers piled heavily with the described food.]

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He follows the instructions he was given and ends up at Link's house. They've met briefly.]

Oh, so it was you all along. We met during that mirror event.

[He sounds like he actually has emotions now, instead of incredibly distant.]

I don't know. That's partly what we're here to find out.

[He winks at her, regaining some of his friendly demeanor from before her awkward question. He sifts through the ingredients until he finds a few long, flat blue-green leaves. After bringing them to his nose to smell them, he holds them out to Vriska to smell.]

Wanna try these? Here, smell. No idea, what they are, but they smell pretty good? Or, we could try a bit of rock salt... jalepenos, maybe...

[Link's gaze practically sparkles upon sight of the containers. He rises to his feel and shuffles over.]

Deer meat? There are deer around here? [He turns one of the containers around in his hand, looking at the food inside.] I haven't seen any...! And they're edible too? I mean - they have color, so they've got a taste, right?

[Well, Zelda has asked him to make fruitcake earlier, but she hasn't come around yet for him to make it for her. Maybe he could try to do a practice batch and test it out on Maribelle?

He smiles.] There's a special recipe in the Hyrule Royal Family for fruitcake. I think Zelda really likes it, although I haven't tried making it yet in Chroma... I could give it a shot if you want to try?

[When something suddenly bursts out of the water, Link flinches and yanks his feet away, eyes wide. Something is - something is in there! A person? A person, in this weather?

Unfortunately, the surprise of seeing the boy there seems to have agitated those nigh-uncontrollable ice powers of his. A blast of cold wind and snow flurries suddenly blows down from the surface of the water, and out of nowhere, a few puppets dressed like snowman come to his sides, as if ready to protect him.]

-- Oh jeez. Sorry, sorry. Hold on. [He clenches his teeth as the moment of surprise begins to pass and hurriedly tries to shove one of the puppets away.] No, go! Go on, shoo! Leave us alone!

[The puppet topples over while the other slinks away. Jeez.

Unfortunately that freezing cold wind is still blowing, though.]

[Link recognizes Valvatorez immediately, too. And he seems... better, this time? He's more brightly colored now, that's for sure.

He rises to his feet to greet him with a respectful nod.]

Yes, I remember. Are you, um, feeling better? You look better.

[He responds with a noise of assent and a nod.]

That's correct. My color has fully returned. It's been back for a month, at least. We simply haven't seen each other since the first encounter.

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I'm gonna say this happens after their demon hunting thread if thats ok

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lol that works. I only though about that after I tagged XD

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