[center][color=darkgreen][h1]Linkle[/h1][/color][/center]

[center][color=darkgreen][b] Level 7[/b][/color] - (8/70) + 1


[color=darkgreen][b]Location:[/b][/color] Devil's Casino
[color=darkgreen][b]Word Count: 579 [/b][/color]
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[@DracoLunaris][@Lugubrious][@Yankee]

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Linkle looked back and forth as the Koopa's started speculating. Well, while one speculated and the other bragged. Bowser did have a point though. Linkle thought back to the fight she's just been in, and whether the cigar boys eyes had been some other color than the normal one. It was useless though. She hadn't really been looking that thing in the eyes, just being in that room had made her own eyes hurt. 

As Bowser and Kamek chose their own portal and Junior got all tuckered out and nestled into the soft plush tabletop for the worlds most inappropriate nap, Linkle realized something important; she no longer had the option of yelling at the guildmaster. Besides, that comment about letting her friends do all the work stung. She didn't even realize that was probably the intention, to spur her into action.

"My point is," she said, her voice low so as not to wake the child. "You don't have to do this." 

She turned around and started walking toward another portal, making a brief stop by the slumbering Junior and the Kamek collectives little building project. Junior had changed, she notice, his new features strikingly familiar. "Guess you wanted to be as big and strong as your dad, huh?" She said softly, whipping off her cloak and laying it gently over him. It sort of made him blend in with the table. "I'm gonna need this one back though, okay?" 

There was no doubt in her mind that the boy would be fine. She'd be worried if he'd already gotten huge, but until that happened she was positive he was safe. There was no way the guildmaster was just gonna step on him. He couldn't. Destiny had plans for Junior beyond this. 

As she stood up the white Kamek came up and worked a little magic, the red splotches she'd gotten from her close encounter with the the long white Keese on vanishing. "Thanks a lot, other Grandpa." She said. That just left the holes. She would need to find another tailor after this. 

For now, though? Onward!

She ran up to the portals again, considering whether to take a portal she hadn't seen anyone enter or help someone out. She didn't enjoy the thought of leaving her allies to fight all on their own. It was an idea that had never felt right to her. If every monster here was on the same level as that smoky jerk then they weren't anything the individual members of the group couldn't handle, but that was no reason to get overconfident. Peach had almost gotten thrown into the fire last time, after all. She'd saved herself but it had been a close thing. On the other hand if they wanted to clear the game quickly it made more sense to take an empty fight, and Linkle very much believed this was a situation that needed to be over quickly. 

She ran down the portals, staring through the outlines until she found one that didn't appear as though it had anyone in it yet. She nodded to herself, the turned to wave to the Kameks and Cadet as she stepped through.