[CFUD: Backdated again]

[boundbydevotion]

[SO ANYWAY, BACK IN JULY, LINK DECIDED HE WAS IGNORING ALLEN BECAUSE ALLEN IS DUMB. And then it continued for a week mostly because he was awkward and doesn't know how to apologize for getting mad...]

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[allmadeofstars]

. . .

But—

[boundbydevotion]

. . . You've lost your direction since coming here. You've become weaker and more unreliable because of friends who have left, even though you still have a home and friends you need to return to someday.

[allmadeofstars]

. . .

[eyes widening]

[boundbydevotion]

I can't be comfortable knowing you'll fall apart if left alone. Or do you intend to stay with the Noah, having escaped the Order?

[allmadeofstars]

[shakes her head hard]

I'll be fine on my own!

[boundbydevotion]

You say that only because you think it is something you are used to.

[allmadeofstars]

I'm always fine on my own!

[boundbydevotion]

Who was it that said "don't leave!" to me not that long ago?

[allmadeofstars]

I don't—I don't want you to leave, but I—I have to be fine on my own.

[boundbydevotion]

Because everyone leaves eventually?

[allmadeofstars]

[trying to hide a suddenly hurt look]

[allmadeofstars]

Because—I need to keep going on my own. And to be strong for other people. Honestly, Link . . . I do know I have a job to do.

[boundbydevotion]

That was sorely lacking in conviction, Walker.

[allmadeofstars]

No . . . I'm going to do it.

[boundbydevotion]

[shakes his head] But are you alone?

[allmadeofstars]

. . . I have friends, and comrades.

[boundbydevotion]

Do you believe it?

[allmadeofstars]

Yes! If I didn't—

What would I fight for?

[boundbydevotion]

[coming back over, calmer now]

[allmadeofstars]

. . . what?

[boundbydevotion]

I'm afraid you'll have to work harder to convince me. It isn't easy to shake that quality of desperation. . .

[allmadeofstars]

I'm not desperate!

[boundbydevotion]

Ah... I should finish the pie I was working on.

[allmadeofstars]

. . .

No.

[boundbydevotion]

No what?