Playing With Knives- LoZ

scene 91- rant

"Wild? Are you okay?"
Silence.
"I'll take that as a no."

Twilight walked over to where Wild was laying on the ground. He had his arms outstretched and he was staring up at the sky. The only movements he made were blinking.

Twilight sat down near him. Not right next to him, but instead a couple feet away.

After a few minutes, Wild spoke.
"I'm such an asshole."
"What makes you think that?"
"Were you even paying attention to the argument Wind and I had?"
"Yes. That's why I came over here. I want to talk about it."
"Fair enough. I'm an asshole because Wind was just upset about this whole thing. He's probably not even mad at me. But I gave him a reason to be mad at me by getting so worked up about such a stupid thing. Well, it's not stupid. I'm the stupid one.
He's just a kid. Of course he'd be annoyed at me for something like that. Lying. But the way he put it... anyone would be annoyed about that. I lied to him about this. I gave him false hope.
Well, at the time, I believed it. Kind of. Well, I decided that i would at least try to not do something stupid like this. I gave myself false hope. I guess i was mostly saying it to myself. I wasn't really thinking about Wind. Or you. I was being selfish.
I'm always being selfish. I never pay attention to anyone else. Sometimes, it feels like I can't. There's just too much going on with me. It feels like I'm just making excuses. I kind of am. But I'm definitely not lying.

One of the things Wind said...
He said that I'm just faking it. And that all that happened was a couple people that I don't remember died. It makes me wonder...
Do I really have a good reason for this? To be like this? A lot of times, the things that bother me most don't even have anything to do with before the Calamity, or what it did. Or the guardians.
Sometimes I'm just upset about nothing. I'm just on a bad mood. I know that's normal, but it's different. I get really upset over the stupidest things. That happened a lot before we defeated the Calamity.
But the faking it thing. Am I? At this point, I don't know. But... I have been pretending to be fine, so I can't be faking it. And I think I'd know if I was faking it.

Wind knows I planned it. The arrow I used does kind of give it away. You have to buy those. Wind wouldn't know that. Zelda would, though. And he said that she knew. Did she say anything about it?
I had to go to Akkala to buy it. I wasted my rupees. And I never should have done it. I should have just ignored those stupid thoughts.

Anyway, I definitely won't do it again. Not even if someone tells me to. I'll talk to you instead."

Wild sighed and smiled.
"That felt nice."

"See? You don't have to keep everything to yourself. It's good to let things out once in a while."
Wild tilted his head back to look at Twilight, smiling.
"I didn't ask for a life lesson."

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"Hey, Wind. I'm sorry about that."
"Me too. I didn't mean what I said. I wasn't thinking. I was just upset."

Wild smiled at Wind and sat down across from him.
"It's fine. Gave me a chance to rant. I needed that."
"Oh. Does that mean you'll be okay, at least for a while? Because don't like it when you're sad."
"Yeah, it probably brings down the mood."
"No, it's not that. Well, it kind of is, but it's mostly that you aren't having a good time, and I want you to be happy."
Wind smiled at him, and he smiled back.
"Aw, thanks."
"You're welcome!"

Wild laughed. He liked this. Hopefully he'd stay like this.

Happy. What a nice feeling.

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"Legend! Hey."
Wind waved at Legend, who had just appeared in front of them.
"Hi guys. How are you, Wild?"
"I'm good."

He didn't mention what happened with him and Wind, not sure if Wind would be okay with him telling people about it. Anyway, it didn't matter.

"You look... happier than usual."
All he was doing was smiling. He hadn't really thought about how he looked and acted. He didn't realize that he didn't smile much.

"You still look tired."
Tired? He probably was. He was just so used to it that he didn't notice.

"But definitely better than usual."
Maybe he was getting better. Maybe he just needed to let some anger out. Tell how he felt. Be listened to.

Wind looked at Wild, then back at Legend.
"Yeah. He's way more fun when he's not all gloomy and stuff."

They- Wild, Wind, and Twilight- had been talking before Legend came. It was a nice conversation. Wild enjoyed it. It was the first real conversation he had actually taken part in since... well, since he could remember. He had never really talked to anyone much. It was usually just somebody making a comment then going back to whatever they had been doing.

Once Legend got there, though, it got a bit awkward. Eventually, Wind started talking to him.

Wild realized something. Time had t gotten back yet. Where was he?
He poked Twilight and quietly asked,
"Do you know where Time is? I haven't seen him in a while."
Twilight looked up at him from another game of solitaire and said,
"No, I don't know."
"Huh. Do you think we should go look for him?"

Twilight looked behind them.
"Not yet. Let's wait a bit, and if he doesn't come back soon, we'll go look for him."
Wild nodded, agreeing.

He just hoped nothing happened.
It was probably nothing. He was just a worrier.