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Leather, Lace and Bells and Drugs : An Adventure in the City [CLOSED]

Who: Ganondorf and Nabooru
What: What indeed.
Where: In the city
When: Feb. 8th
Warnings:Ganondorf and Nabooru.

Well considering what everyone else seemed to imply what this little excursion was going to be (to his greatest amusement), Ganondorf had not been on the same wavelength as everyone else. Amazingly. No really! This wasn't going to be a log about that type of leather collar. Just...a leather collar, lace, bells and drugs.

With a strange boyish glee fuelled by student and teacher's confusion and wondering if anyone would try to follow them (they'd get a quick punch to the stomach) along with face that most people would want to punch in, he knocked at Nabooru's door, waiting patently for her to come out so they might go onwards to this strange and no doubt eventful adventure.

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She knew what was going on. Surprisingly. It was one of those moments where she believed she was getting some form of trust back in the man. Or vice versa. Whichever way it was working, it was hard not to be the slightest bit happy that he'd be giving her a chance for the two of them to do something together. The winter season was ending, which made it even better and she was sure before too long, she'd be the same Gerudo she was months before everything had fallen apart so perfectly.

Nabooru answered her door a few moments after he'd knocked. A hand settled onto her waist and she gestured with the free one. "Are you ready to go? You seem excited." Well, if 'excited' were really the word to use to describe her king, and she wasn't sure it was, but it'd have to do for the time being.

"I am," he replied, crossing his own arms, watching her move with perhaps a little too much interest. This was..a day when he'd put all negative thoughts asides and just enjoy it, he figured. No worries about Hyrule or his clan. Just doing an activity together that involved collars, amongst other things. There were still many things that kept speaking to him in hushed whispers but he did his best to ignore them.

He had important things to do today. Let him have his peace.

"What bout yourself. Are you ready for this?"

She nodded and afterward, showed herself out, closing her door behind her. Stopping beside him, she tipped her chin up. "I think so. Bear in mind I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing, so I'm more like coming for moral support, you know?"

Nabooru gave an idle shrug and she laughed. "Just wait until everyone figures out what we've really been talking about this entire time. Although there's something amusing about just letting them make their own guesses and throwing it in their faces when they're wrong."

"Oh let them assume all the wrong things," He agreed, beginning to walk the corridor that would lead them outside. "Although I do wonder what they will say when I encase it in a crystal to take it away. Considering the city...I'm guessing not too surprised. This place is already strange enough as it is without the school."

When they got close, he politely opened the door for her, like a true gentleman.

She followed after him quietly as she thought about what he had to say. "Well... They might not be too surprised. I doubt anyone else can do that, but magic kind of runs rampant here. If someone's not used to seeing it, I'm going to assume they're living under a rock." She smiled a bit when he opened the door, gave him a brief look as if to say it wasn't necessary, and then she showed herself out.

But she didn't go far. Perhaps a foot past the door, she stopped and turned to wait for him. "You know, once upon a time, I think you would have thought the school commonplace. Do you remember a couple of years ago?"

"Of course," he answered back, as they resumed walking. "Sometimes I do still it as such. Yet the school is not without its...advantages." What he meant by that was left up to her interpretation. "I wonder what life we would have lived without this building and the town before us below...do you remember when you first arrived and how the technology seemed so strange to you?"

Nabooru nodded, "Back then, I was very stubborn. I refused to believe that any way other than the one I was raised with was an acceptable one. In some ways, I have not changed. I still believe that the strength of the Gerudo is one that cannot be compared to. We've had a lifestyle much more unforgiving than most others. For me to not take pride in that would be like committing an atrocity to the Goddess."

She lifted a hand and tapped at her chin in thought. "And yet it's possible for us to take some of the things we've learned in this land and use them to make life easier for our young and for ourselves. Even if we do that, however, we should never forget our roots and how we came to be as we are. There is strength in every beat of our hearts and undeniable courage in each breath we take."

"Spoken like a true Gerudo," he said, agreed. "Maintaining a true balance with what this place can offer us, and staying true to who we are is primordial in my eyes. Better have a single alert and powerful Gerudo warrior than ten who end up sitting on a couch and becoming wasteful."

After which, his voice had a strange tingling and teasing tone as he raised a single eyebrow. "The bus schedule seems to be running late. Hmmm. I suppose there are other ways to arrive on time..." Yet the call was Nabooru's to do as she wished.

She'd begun to address his earlier statement. None of the Gerudo should have been lazy enough to simply sit on a couch and waste away. In fact, they should have been doing everything to ensure their own survival. All the more so considering she knew in about a decade the flood was going to come and wipe all of them out. Well, a decade plus, she supposed...

Nabooru looked over to her king and for many moments watched him. Then she gave him an uncharacteristically soft smile. "Are you that much in a hurry? I understand you enjoy... boaring around, but really."

"Well perhaps it is best to see it this...way," he explained with a grin again, "in that very few women can say they have ridden on top of Ganondorf and not the other way around."

Classy.

For many moments, she said absolutely nothing. For as much as she was used to him being brazen, there were the times that had passed between them. But if he could be so teasing with her, clearly it was because he was comfortable enough to do so.

...Right?

She didn't want to give it too much thought, honestly. "...Well. I guess that is true. I think you're just lazy, honestly. What, do you find no appeal to me curling an arm around yours and walking together in the way that we can only here?"

He had a quiet laugh at that remark and may have subconsciously pulled at her a little tighter.

"Perhaps you are right. There is a saying about how the journey is worth more than the destination. Perhaps now is such an example." So no boars. Thus it was decided. "Don't complain when we spend the next thirty minutes walking without end, mind you."

Now it was his turn to tease her again. After all, they both knew Gerudo could last hours in the desert.

Nabooru eyed him for many long moments and the more she looked, the more she understood just how happy she was in the moment. So he got a smile from her. A very sincere and heartfelt smile. It was the kind of smile that she reserved for him alone. For the rest of the world could see her grins and her smug smirks, but only a handful were allowed to see the other layers of her.

And Ganondorf was at the very top of that list, it seemed. For he had been, first and foremost, hers. From their childhood and up to the present. Her... what, exactly? A question she couldn't answer, for it wasn't within her right to decide what he was or was not in her life. It would be a decision they'd need to make one day together.

If that day ever came...

"I haven no reason to complain, do I?"

The play of power between the both of them was sometimes too exhilarating for Ganondorf to put into words fully. How she twisted, moved and changed her. The voice of fear at her inside his head was easily calmed at that instant she smiled. How easy it was for her to melt away his worries. He felt...he felt...

Normal around her. Yes. That was the world. Normal. No need for the masks or the trickery. He could be himself. And that was a gift precious few got to see completely.

As they walked, he finally replied to her.

"Of course not. I believe we are both in good company and I doubt anyone would be foolish to challenge us in the streets." They might wear some fancy jewelery, but woe to the mugger that thought he could make a quick steal. He would be sorely surprised.

"The weather is surprisingly gentle for this time of year," he added, closing his hand over a small snowflake. "I won't need to worry that she'll get cold."

Her pace was casual and a bit slow. She was in no hurry. There was no need to be. Nabooru imagined there would be very few times that she'd be able to truly relax and enjoy the day. This was not a day for worry or concern. Instead, she would simply delight with her current companion.

Her lips curled into a smile as she tipped her head to eye him fondly. To think that not so long ago they had been fighting. To think that in the not so distant past they had been on opposite sides. Tension sat between them every so often, but when they paid it no attention, it frequently faded away into nothing. Anxiety sat in her chest when she was with him, and on the tip of her tongue were the words she so terribly wanted to confide in him.

That she was the Sage of Spirit. That she would, with the aid of the Hero of Time, need to seal him away forever, if he could not change the error of his ways. That she wanted them to simply rule their people with the best intentions as King and Queen. But she couldn't say those things. Not when she believed that all of the hard work in reconciliation would be for naught. No. Today was not the day when she would tell him everything. And not the day after either.

"The fire of your ambition and your determination is enough to melt even the iciest of lands, my king," she replied with a sly smile in his direction. And for as much as one could have accused her of inflating his ego, she did so with genuine words and sentiments.

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