Gardening in the Garden Car? OTA

[najaran]

Who: Najaran, her new Card, and OTA.
Where: Garden
When: The first several days after platform
What: Najaran fretting over her new creature.
Warnings: Angst, death and violence mentions.




Ever since Najaran got this little one, she hasn't done her chores obsessively like she usually does.

She'd been draggy and down since the end of the mission, but since the platform it had been different than just that. She'd been almost obsessive about staying in the Garden car. She'd grab food from the kitchen then just go there and stay, usually laying down near the small patch of dirt she'd gathered and the small creature resting there. She was like a mother hen that hatched a kitten by accident. She had no clue what she was doing, or if she was taking care of the baby properly. but she felt like she had to try. HAD TO.

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[najaran]

She nodded, rubbing the back of her head. "He always did his best to take care of me." And she, stupid child she had been, had bought every lie. Every half truth. She had heard the love and good intentions behind the words, and so had trusted the words completely.

[sevenyearsasleep]

The Great Deku Tree let Link grow up thinking he was a defective Kokiri, instead of letting the poor child know he'd been adopted. It would have saved him a great deal of anxiety growing up if he'd known the truth.

"I've had two adoptive fathers," he said. "One, was the Great Deku Tree, and, he was a father to all the Kokiri. I wish he'd told me a lot sooner that I was not one myself, it would have been easier to fit in if I'd known I was actually a different race. And if they had known."

Link smiled a little. "My new adoptive father is worrywort bookworm." He paused. "Not... not literally. He's human." He had to specify, he realized, having just said his first adoptive father had been a Tree.

[najaran]

"Wow. I've only ever had the one dad." She leaned back against a rock. "He never lied about me being adopted or anything, but about things like how it was too beautiful a night to sleep indoors when we could watch the snow instead and how he had eaten when I'm pretty sure now he didn't, just so I could have more." She missed him. "But it was just him, and then My Master, till I came here."

[sevenyearsasleep]

"Sounds like a good dad."

The Great Deku Tree, being...well, a tree, hadn't really provided much physical protection. Spiritual guidance, yes, but, physical needs, no.

[najaran]

She nodded, smiling a bit. "He was the best," she agreed.