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The Piper of Krysa Hamlet (Whole Chain)

A couple nights ago to help me get to sleep I told myself the story of the pied piper in my head. But I kept adding little details to it and ended up staying up longer to write it down. I wanted to tell this story here but not have to insert LU into it, so instead Time is just gonna tell it to the chain and by extension you the reader.

Trigger warning: domestic violence is mentioned briefly, read at your own discretion

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The fire crackled softly, flakes of amber and crimson danced around the carefully placed logs, rising slowly together into the night sky. Time watched the embers intently from his spot in the middle of the semi circle of somewhat sleepy heroes, eyes slowly rising to see the lonely field that stretched out beyond their camp at the edge of a vast forest. He was calm and more than ready to call it a night.

...but couldn't until the others decided to settle down. He tried to chune out the youngest hero nested snugly at his left side, who was talking loudly to Wars as he sat at the far end polishing his armour. Sitting beside Wind and sharing with him the sail cloth was Sky, who was being shown designs for wooden sword hilts by Four. They flicking through scores of paper leaving a mess that was dangerously close to the fire. On Time's right hand side was Legend, Wild and Hyrule who were playing some sort of card game.

They were a little restless. Almost a week had gone by without anything happening outside of hiking and stopping for breaks. The lack of action had been appreciated after the first day or so, as after they'd gained their ninth addition to the group over a fortnight ago they were constantly dealing with monsters and deadly situations. Yet as the calm carried on the heroes found themselves growing anxious for something to happen. A village of some kind would be nice, even a monster camp to get rid of or an ambush from the Shadow's army was becoming sort after.

The only one not making a fuss was the large grey wolf stationed at the other end next to Hyrule, he was lying down with his head casually turned towards the edge of the forest.

Time leaned back into the fallen log he and a few of the others were resting against. "Let's cut the chatter now and settle down."

"With all due respect old man, what's the point?" the Captain responded, examining the shine on his shoulder guard. "Outside of walk through that field, we don't have a plan."

"A good night's sleep is important regardless," Time said with a sigh. "If you don't like tomorrow's agenda then use your time on first night watch to make a better plan."

Warriors caught Time's glare and after a couple seconds nodded before going back to inspecting his armour. "If you're gonna make us go to sleep this early, then tell us a story as compensation for ruining our fun."

The old man pulled a face and sat up to look at Warriors properly. "The Captain wants a bedtime story?"

"You can call it that if you want," Warriors responded with a smirk. "It's just that even though I've been travelling with you for almost a month now, I know next to nothing about you. I'm sure the others are interested too."

A murmur of agreement swept across the group as the younger members looked at Time expectantly, the man in turn raising an eyebrow at their curiosity.

"Sparkles over there is right," Legend said, earning a scowl from Warriors. "It would be nice to get a little insight into your adventures."

"That so?" Time said, stretching back.

"Yeah!" Wind lightly tapped Time's arm. "How about your first dungeon? You must have done lots of those. Or what about telling us about your toughest battle? Or the time you pulled the Master Sword-?"