Waiting for Destiny

It has been almost seven years and he is still nothing but an immobile lump.

I know that is not a very regal thing to say, but it is the truth. Sometimes it just infuriates me that the fate of my kingdom lies in this sleeping boy. Yet there is something about him.

I have felt it from the moment he snuck into my garden that day. This...aura, this impenetrable sense of strength and confidence and just general good will that emanates from him. I was drawn to him that day and have continued to be ever since. It really doesn't make sense, I suppose. A princess resting the fate of her people as well as herself in the hands of someone she doesn't even know much less someone with no military or heroic past. He's just an orphaned Hylian raised by Kokiri who never really fit in until now.

To tell you the truth, I don't even know what brought him to us. Destiny maybe, providence, a blessing from the Great Fairies, all I know is that I can see it, whatever IT is, in his eyes. Eyes that show an understanding and strength beyond his years. I think that's what has reassured me for all this time.

You see, the night Ganon took the castle was the hardest night of my life. My father was dethroned and I had to flee, turning my back on everything that I knew. AS I sat on my horse behind Impa, I realized that my beloved people would not understand that I had to leave in order to one day return and liberate them. They would see only that their princess had abandoned and betrayed them. But when our horse crossed the drawbridge and I saw Link standing there, I knew that he would help make things alright. I flung the Ocarina of Time over my shoulder with my heart and hope attached to ir. He did not stop Ganon that day, but he did keep my hope intact.

My heart is a different story.
I became one with the Triforce of Wisdom that night and it has helped me to salvage the remnants of myself. I am a princess who had to watch her kingdom be raped and destroyed while she hid powerless in the Chamber of the Sages. I had to see the tears of my people as Ganon slaughtered mercilessly those who got in his way. My castle is a den of monsters and evil. But my Triforce piece helps me keep my sanity.

My Triforce piece as well as Link.

Rauru gave me the job of guarding Link. It takes my mind off the pain and the past, helps me to look toward the promise of the future. I've watched him grow over these past years while I myself have grown. His body changed from an innocent, wide-eyed boy to a startlingly handsome, though elfish, young man. I admit to being a bit taken with his looks and what I can sense of his spirit. But I will not let that distract me. When Link wakes, he will not know who I am.

I have used the power of my Triforce piece to weave a web of deception around myself. In this web, my long hair shortens, my voice deepens, and I appear taller and broader while my curves disappear. I assume the role of a young Sheikah male named, quite originally, Sheik. This is how Link will know me until the Six Sages can be reawakened and Ganon can be vanquished and sealed away permanently. I will offer Link guidance and what help and protection I, Princess Zelda, can give.

But until he wakes I will be content to watch over him and gaze upon his sleeping form as a woman who loves him.