Where Time Stands Still

Interlude- Truce

A/N: Well, Bow got her last timepiece back! Thank you all for reading, hope you enjoyed,

Just kidding. We're far from being done here ;)

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Bow felt her feet touch the floor of her spaceship before her vision returned. She felt glass in her hand and smiled. Finally. All her timepieces were back.

Her and Mu landed in the hub room of Bow's spaceship. Mu was on the floor, and scratched her head.

"Wow. That was... wieeerd."

"Yeah. I didn't know the Horizon was a real place."

"I meant travelling back. But yeah, that place was weird too."

"Well, at least we're..." Bow trailed off as she held up the timepiece. "Oh, come on!"

It was a shard of glass attached to a few scraps of wood. A shard of a timepiece. "Great. Way to make my job a lot harder."

"What's wrong?" Mu asked. Bow simply held up the shard. "Oh."

Bow sighed. "The stupid timepiece broke. This was the last one I needed, but of course I can't go home yet." Bow slipped the shard into her pocket and started towards the kitchen, planning things out. The other shards probably made more of those rifts, so she'd have to locate them. She could do that using the telescope in the new room. But first, she'd return Mu back to Mafia Town.

"Uh, hello? Bow? Where are you going?"

Bow turned back around and looked at Mu. She was standing with her arms crossed.

"Upstairs, so I can return you home," Bow responded.

"What?! Home?"

"Yeah. Back to Mafia Town."

"But- but I want to help! You still have to collect more timepiece shards, right? Let me help!"

Help? Absolutely not. This was dealing with time magic and rifts, something that Mu had proved not too long ago she couldn't handle. Though, Bow felt a bit guilty for using that as a reason, since Mu had apologized. But there were quite a few other reasons, too. "I'm sorry Mu, but no. It's too dangerous, you saw how easily Moonjumper took you out! And you don't have a hookshot or a weapon."

"Well, he... he caught me by surprise! I can defend myself! And I'm sure we can find extra supplies, or I can figure out a different way to make it work! And I have magic too, so I can fight!"

"Still, it's too risky. You only survived because Sky had healing items for us to use. If you're hurt and I can't help you, then who knows what will happen!!"

"Well... you have a way to heal yourself, I've seen you do it! Can't we do something like that?"

Bow hesitated. How did Mu know she could respawn? "No, we couldn't."

"Why not? I just want to help, Bow, let me help!"

"Because I don't trust you with time magic!"

Mu froze. The anger on her face was wiped clean off.

"Because the last time you had a timepiece, you set the entire planet on fire! You opened a massive rift, hurt tons of people, and nearly caused the end of the world!" Bow paused a moment, catching her breath. "And I can't risk that happening again, especially in a world where time works differently. So, no. You can't help."

Bow turned around and climbed up the ladder that led upstairs. She was about to enter the kitchen when Mu spoke again.

"Then let me make it up to you."