Zephyr's Links
"coldin is the first person i met! i saved him! at first i stayed with him because i didn't really have anywhere to go but he'd teach me lots of things including sign language since i didn't really know how to speak. he's kind and patient but also very scared a lot of the time, like everyone's out for him. which uh, is kind of true considering that's sort of how we met... but i'm here now. i won't let anything happen to him."
"can't say i ever expected to have an immortal deity decide *i'm* the one worth their time but... i wouldn't trade it for anything. helping them discover...well...the whole world? it's pretty incredible. they're so unbelievably kind and i almost feel bad when they're pushed to protecting me or rinji when our pasts inevitably catch up again. when we met i'd pretty much given up but they're...exactly what i needed to keep going, i suppose."
"i'm...not actually sure how it ended up like this considering we met because he tried to kill coldin but... i didn't feel like he was actually a bad person, i guess. turned out he and coldin had a lot in common. both 'stuck between rock and a hard place', he once said. they're very different people though! he's kind of loud but he's fun and gets me to try new things. sometimes it kind of seems like he doesn't care about anything but he actually cares a lot, i think. he could do with being more careful though, always running in and getting hurt.."
"the first time i saw them they were staring me dead in the eye after catching a bullet meant for coldin. pretty sure i shat myself. and now knowing how protective they are - and *what* they are - i...have no idea why im still alive, honestly. i don't know why they gave me a chance and i'm not going to question it. they're almost stupidly nice and i just- it's been a hot fucking second since someone's just been nice to me, i guess? the whole 'immortal deity as a personal body guard' thing is a nice bonus too, although i'm pretty sure they wish i didn't have the 'run first, ask later' mentality."
"they taught me everything. or well, everything around guardians i suppose? not so much the world outside although i could tell they were curious too... but then they disappeared for decades and when they finally reappeared everything had changed. i- i think there's more to their confrontation with mason that they won't talk about but... i don't know. they're so distant it feels like i barely know them anymore."
"i noticed them up as soon as they appeared. new guardians are exceedingly rare, even with nearly a century i'm among the younger. i adopted them, in a sense. thought them everything i knew...or as much as was necessary. that was decades ago now. not so long for me but...long for them. shit happened, i got a fucked up reality check, things changed. and now nothing will ever go back to how it used to be."