"Okay."
- Matt Damon, The Departed
The sky shined bright blue over the remains of Central Hyrule. Link and Mipha sat together in the crumbling Sacred Grounds where the Champions had first gathered a lifetime ago. Their shadows formed a single outline as they tiredly leaned into each other underneath the sun's rays.
In the far off distance in the four corners of Hyrule, the Divine Beasts stood motionlessly on their mountains like memorials for everything that had been lost in the Great Calamity. Zelda, her father, Revali, and the countless soldiers and townspeople in the castle when Ganon attacked. The princess had paid the price to free her world and save the people she loved with all of her powers, and her own life.
Link and Mipha gently pulled away from their long kiss. The war against Ganon had left them as weary as the ruins where they were sitting. The fins along Mipha's shoulders, wrists, and waist had healed over in frayed ribbons, while a narrow vertical ridge was permanently carved down her right eyelid. Link's clean long-sleeve tunic hid the web scars covering his chest and the heavily bandaged stump of his left arm.
But their withered appearances never changed how they felt for each other. When they were together, it was as if neither of them had ever been scarred by the Calamity, and the columned sanctuary surrounding them was as beautiful and serene as they had always remembered it.
"Do you think… Zelda would have been happy with this?" Mipha asked softly from Link's side. A small hint of worry haunted her golden eyes as she blinked.
"It's what she wanted," Link replied with a relaxing smile.
Link draped his right arm over Mipha's back and leaned his head toward her shoulder. Mipha pulled him closer and sighed, guiding his ear against her chest so he could hear her heart beating as she breathed.
Author's note: Artorias and Imoen sittin' in a tree, reenactin' the epilogue to Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team.