She holds on to him as if it would stop him from leaving her.

"No!" she strangles out between gasps and tears, and the aching of her many years and wounds and losses, and the smell of his blood "Link! ...Link!"

Even in death, as she gingerly touches his hair, traces the line of his nose and lips with quivering, numb hands, his expression holds a slight impertinence, and the boldness that so characterizes him, as if he'd greeted it with arms wide open and a witty remark –and she is suddenly sure he did- She supposes that, had she reached him in time, he would have smiled, and told her it was alright, that he'd fallen fighting for the things he loved: The land he'd been born on, the people he'd shared his life with…and her. This thought makes the ache deeper and more unbearable, so much that she vaguely wonders, in the haze of holding his lifeless body, whether there is a major wound she overlooked and the pain she feels is actually the trance of death.

Because Hylia –the Great goddess Hylia- realizes this means she never gets to hear his voice again, or see him smile, or have him just sit by her in silence, and that whatever future any of them could have envisioned for them both has been rendered impossible (If it ever was possible, that is) and that all the time they did have is just gone forever…

When the cry –the roar- she's been holding back finally tears its way out her throat, her grasp on his body becomes fiercer, and she holds him close, as if to merge both their beings into one. She holds him and weeps for what seem full ages (And she's lived a couple of them, she knows just how long they actually are). She weeps herself dry until she's ultimately forced to let go of him and the numbness that comes to replace the pain is even worse.

And yet it is so short-lived; it crumbles a few days later when she kneels down to place flowers on the grave to his name and she realizes she didn't get to say she loved him either.

C.C. (a) the Author here. I have no excuse other than the fact that this ship and all of it's lifetimes destroys me in so many ways and I love it. That and Queen is awesome, but that goes without saying.

Comments are always welcome.