Calm thoughts

She laid her white, glove covered hands gently on the cold rail as she looked over the snow covered kingdom. From the middle towers balcony she could overlook almost every province, the far stretching plains and fields that made the kingdom so free and beautiful. Her eyes watched the sleeping land, so peaceful and calm, it was like Ganon never truly had been here to cause havoc. Her mind flashed through different times during his reign, hopeless hours and painful moments. She turned her head gazing at a small part of the bridge crossing over Lake Hylia. A place she always found peace in, but she couldn't leave the castle, not even to go for a fast trip to the town. The assault had heavily damaged Hyrule leaving it in peril of any upcoming attacks. She needed these hours before she was needed in the morning. To build up the economy and establish a defense for any possible threats. She was almost thorn apart, it was consuming her, all the stress and responsible. All the pressure was on her, she didn't even want to think about her father, his fate had began to haunt her. She gave a look at the rising sun as she knew it soon was time, giving her the last strength she could need.

She turned slowly around walking towards the wooden door, as it closed behind her the sunlight could only get in through the few, small windows following the stair down. Her long white gown slightly touching the cold stone floor as she moved downwards in the tower. She stopped just meters from the door and took the stone wall for support as she took a deep breath, then tying up her long bright gentle hair into a ponytail, she was tired of the formalities and wore only what was necessary for any audience or meeting. She turned the handle slowly and opened the door, showing her the empty corridor. Pictures of places in the kingdom, old, new, forgotten, she had laid eyes upon them all, even if you chose not the believe it.

Another door leading to a far larger room, the throne room. She walked up to the metal encrusted chair, almost large enough to room a family of five persons. She paced before it, she couldn't sit before anyone had entered the room, the fear of falling into sleep was something she didn't want to feel again. A faint creak could be heard before the large throne doors slowly began to move, through it two guards wearing hoods with leather armor stepped through closely followed by a well dressed woman. She almost floated forward on the dark red carpet with her wide dark-purple dress flowing in the same rate as her movement. She smiled she could see the monarch closer, making eye contact before she was at the base of the small stair leading up to the throne. She made a slight curtsey before she spoke in a low voice.

" I know as well as you, that this is not a challenge for you."

" Discrete as usual, the throne was something I shouldn't touch for many years to come. If only the goddesses had made a kinder choice in this position."

" You were meant to be the ruling monarch sooner or later, you know it as well as anyone, my majesty"

" Leave the formalities, you know that you can speak freely with me, Vivian"

" My queen, you always insist, but I disobey"
She sat down on the throne looking into the eyes of Vivian, before a smile showed on her lips. Vivian gave a small laugh, followed by the queen.

" You always know how to get to me, Vivian"

" You should know better then to face me in arrogance, Queen Zelda"

How Vivaian always could make such a graceful appearance and be a such warm person, she didn't really know. She didn't know why she always laughed to this specific humor, what was so special about it? It seemed always like a relief to do something amusing like mocking the upper class citizens. She had never been one, even though she had grown up in a castle and been given so much attention.
But she was her support, even though she hadn't told her everything. Her fathers fate she knew, but how lonely and dark the inside was, that Vivian was unaware of.

She gazed from her throne on her, for a moment there was something wrong with the atmosphere in the room, she threw a look around the entire chamber like if something has passed the eyes of her guardians. When she sensed a relief she ignored the moment, blaming it in her thoughts on stress and fatigue.

" What news have you brought me then?" Zelda said with a gently voice.

"Well, there has been more activity in the western desert and not just regular sandstorms and disoriented troops. Something or someone is lurking out there. I know only as your councilor I shouldn't take major decisions but until further I stopped sending scouts and recon missions out there." Vivian replied as calm as ever while overlooking a small wooden parchment.

" As always those Gerudians are up to something, last time Kotake froze me to the ceiling while her sister ended half the of the population in the castle town. All in search of an entrance to the temple of time."

Zelda rubbed her temple with her left hand, staring into the floor until she realized she was almost reminiscing. Getting a concerned look from Vivian she straightened out and laid her hands back on the sides of the throne.

" Greed can do terrible things to ones mind, not forgetting often evil stands behind it ready to strike." Said Vivian looking into the eyes of Zelda.

" Indeed, much have been witnessed in these lands, more then mortal eyes should bare on it's conscious in fact."

Vivian looked at Zelda with concern of her mind, she had become very drawn back, she wouldn't speak as much as she used to and only attended to major events and assemblings. She feared that the queen would give up on her kingdom leaving it in peril. She shrugged it off, and as Zelda noticed she blamed it on the cold halls.

" I have more information for you, but currently it is spread throughout a room of officers who I need to get it from."
Vivian smiled slightly after she had ended her sentence, getting a minor nod from Zelda she turned and walked out as gracefully as she had entered.

As a maid whispered into the ears of the queen, she let out a small sigh of relief and made a gesture to the guards to leave her for the time being, leaving her to her thoughts.

She walked in a slow pace out through the inspiring throne doors ornamented with legends of Hyrule. Light covered her face, almost illuminating from her as she walked up to a wide stone rail. She laid her hands on it and witnessed the entire capital of Hyrule from this specific place. She leaned laying her elbows on the rail, watching the growing kingdom with interest as it was bestowed with sunlight. The cooling winds swept by, making her see the mark of Hyrule on the flag which fluttered at the east direction. She leaned her hand against her cheek as she disappeared within her thoughts. She frowned and laughed at old memories from times when she didn't need to control everything, it was an easier period. The string holding her hair in a tail was removed, she put it away and shook her hair then letting it hang along the shoulder as she leaned over the rail again.

As she drifted away in her thoughts once again the wind changed, drastically it turned and blew strongly to the west, almost ripping of the flag. Drawn out from daydreaming, she hastily looked around, the guards at the closed throne door seemed as shocked and confused as their own queen. Dark clouds gathering in the west could be easily spotted, she held one hand against the chest in fear of the worst. As the lightning struck through the clouds, she fell to the ground, still conscious. Before the palace guards reached her she sat up on her knees, gazing to whatever evil that was summoned in the desert. The clouds lowered and was suddenly drained, turning into a vortex of matter combined with the wind in a shape of a smaller hurricane. It was drawn into the sands, she raised from the ground only to witness this matter vanish into t he depths of the desert.

" Tell lady Vivian to send a group of scouts to investigate this matter, I don't want our kingdom to be ambushed in it's weakest hour" Zelda said that before she ventured back into the throne room closing the large stone doors again behind her.

As the guards sent a messenger to the lady, their own queen went to her tower once again. Afraid of what just occurred she wouldn't hesitate to do what was required to remove this affliction from her heart. She headed down again, telling her palace guardians to cancel whatever that did not concern this situation. As she closed the door to her own quarter and laid a while on her stone bed ornamented with healing words in Hylian letters and words.

Heading down an endless rune covered path and swirling winds holding her to the ground. It never ended, it haunted her, persuading her wherever she would go. Always to bring her down, even if she would stand up and face it.
She flew up staring forward into the wall, casting a look around. She was back, only a nightmare, why wouldn't it leave her alone.

" Leave me alone! I didn't choose my destiny, the goddesses brought it upon me!"
She screamed into the air in her anger. As a maid ran into the room followed by a guardian, she laid down again.

" It happened again, I still can't have one night alone." She said quietly to the maid.
The maid showed that she could handle it and the guardian left, as the maid took a towel and moistened it before she put it on the forehead of the queen.

" I will send for the doctor again." She said to Zelda

" No, send for the shaman, he is better, we must find someone who can actually cure something, he may be able to know more also."

" I will see to it after you have calmed down, my majesty."
Zelda raised and sat at the edge of the bed with her hands on her face, to try and forget and find serenity again.
The maid gave her some grinded herbs to help her sleep better, the maid left when Zelda had began to try and rest once again.
Fear of loss, that was a scarr that was never shown, but it could never been taken away, how much you wanted or tried it would remain.