"It's not that I don't want Link to save me," said the Princess Zelda, sipping on a cool glass of Lon Lon milk while reclining leisurely on a royal bean-bag. "It's just that he's so frightfully dull..."
She was half addressing her personal maid, who felt it was none of her business and was dusting furiously in order to leave the room as quickly as possible.
"Now Ganondorf, on the over hand... I mean sure, he's a bit evil, but he's so interesting. You missed a spot."
She pointed imperiously to a tiny speck of dust in the corner, and the maid scurried to it at once. "Sorry, your 'ighness," she fussed, "my eyesight must be goin' in my old age."
"That's all right, maidy," said Zelda, looking out of the ornate window to the courtyard below, where Link was running around collecting Rupees. "Must he slash at the bushes like that?"
She left the room (much to the maid's relief) and flounced down a spiral staircase to emerge, blinking prettily, into the daylight. "Stop making such a mess, boy!" she demanded.
Link, who had just found a blue Rupee and was rather pleased with himself, turned around and offered it to her, a big grin stretched across his simple face. "Hello, Princess," he said breathlessly.
"I've got lots of those, thanks," said the Princess coolly. "And can you please keep the noise down, I've got a headache." With that, she trounced back inside and up to her room, almost bumping into the maid who was making a hasty escape.
Link shrugged and ran out of the castle gardens and into the long green grass, slashing at a pair of elderly Octoroks as he went.
"Oi, watch it!" shouted one Octorok as the green-clad streak vanished over the hills. "Blasted kids, running around playing heroes. No consideration for us Octoroks, have they?"
"Feh," shrugged the other Octorok indifferently.