Link is about ten months my senior, so that makes him twenty three. [ Zelda chuckles softly. ] Or one hundred and twenty three, more accurately.
We've spent days together like this, visiting shops and markets and local restaurants, but always as the Princess of Hyrule and her swordsman-- or, when people recognize him, the Princess and the Hero of Hyrule. I think the only time we get to be simply Zelda and Link is when we are out in the wild all by ourselves. The mountains don't care if you are a princess and a hero. Nor do the rivers or the forests.
[ Zelda watches how Darin's gaze travels around her room while she speaks. What is he thinking about, she wonders. He's very observant. What sorts of things is he learning about her simply from looking about her bedroom?
When his eyes stop, though, she doesn't have to wonder anymore. She knows what he's looking at before he even speaks. ]
I did, yes. [ Zelda's tone turns a bit sheepish and she reaches up to pluck at the short strands of her hair. ] A year or two after I was freed from the seal.
[ Her gaze flicks to the photograph. A young princess standing over the precipice of complete destruction, surrounded by her five beloved Champions. It's risky to have this photograph at all-- if anyone were to see it, it would reveal the secret Zelda has been hiding all this time. But her apartment felt so empty without this picture. ]
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We've spent days together like this, visiting shops and markets and local restaurants, but always as the Princess of Hyrule and her swordsman-- or, when people recognize him, the Princess and the Hero of Hyrule. I think the only time we get to be simply Zelda and Link is when we are out in the wild all by ourselves. The mountains don't care if you are a princess and a hero. Nor do the rivers or the forests.
[ Zelda watches how Darin's gaze travels around her room while she speaks. What is he thinking about, she wonders. He's very observant. What sorts of things is he learning about her simply from looking about her bedroom?
When his eyes stop, though, she doesn't have to wonder anymore. She knows what he's looking at before he even speaks. ]
I did, yes. [ Zelda's tone turns a bit sheepish and she reaches up to pluck at the short strands of her hair. ] A year or two after I was freed from the seal.
[ Her gaze flicks to the photograph. A young princess standing over the precipice of complete destruction, surrounded by her five beloved Champions. It's risky to have this photograph at all-- if anyone were to see it, it would reveal the secret Zelda has been hiding all this time. But her apartment felt so empty without this picture. ]