Author's Note. Hello and welcome, all! Why are you reading a boring foreword instead of a story? Well, as there are really very few spaces to describe the content this story is plotted to have, for the safety of my own ass I must slap a few warning labels on this fic. Please read this before tackling the first chapter, and thanks for coming!

Disclaimer. This applies to all chapters within this fanfic. This is a nonprofit endeavor. I'm not asserting that I own anything. Fortunately for me and you, I don't own the Zelda franchise, Nintendo, or any affiliated companies. I have no rights to any characters except those which I've made up - and it should be fairly obvious which ones those are.

Warnings. Okay, here's the important stuff. This story is going to have shounen-ai in later chapters. For those of you who are young and innocent (oh, those were the days…), this means guys liking other guys… so if that's not your cup of tea and you don't think you can stomach it, that's too bad, and you had probably better look elsewhere. Specific pairings which this fic will deal with… well, you'll just have to stay tuned on that one.

Setting. This will be explained later anyhow, but I feel the need to clarify this now, just to be perfectly clear, and also because the first chapter sounds nearly nothing like Zelda. This is an A/U, set seven years after the fall of Ganondorf. Instead of choosing to relive his lost childhood, Link stayed within his adult body. Since then, Hyrule has been changing, particularly around the castle - the castle town has swelled to resemble a metropolis. The rest should be sufficiently covered in the story - if you have any more questions, you're welcome to put them in a review!