Chapter 2:The Game is Over
452 A.H.
When the service was over everyone who had gathered for Romani's funeral left; most with tears still in their eyes – some still is wiping at them and others merely letting the streams continue. However Link stayed where he stood and watched as the grave keepers began their work of placing the dug up dirt back into the grave and on Romani's grave. The two men paid the old man no attention; they were quite used to the widows or widowers staying and watching their beloveds are buried. Link was obviously no different to all the widowers before him, but to him none of them… none of them were married to her. That was an honor- no; a privilege for him. He was always taken aback at how much she cared and supported him over the years they shared together despite all the crazy things he had done: from the random request for a pyre to be held for the Fierce Deity Mask, to the time he killed the Gorman brothers, then their marriage despite the crime he committed, then the move here to Hyrule – a strange new land for his family. He had done so many things… so many things that would have made other women turn him away or leave him… but not her.
He had always felt that he owed her, but everytime he questioned her why she hadn't left him she would always give him that smile that only she could give, then promptly punch him in the shoulder, and then before he could even rub his shoulder she would kiss him on the cheek and tell him 'I love you'. Everytime she did that he would instantly forget his guilt and remember why he loved her so much.
A smile of those days moved over his lips as he placed one of his hands on its opposite shoulder – where she always punched him and rubbed it like if she had just done it just then. "I love you…" he whispered to the grave before noticing that the grave hands had already left him alone after finishing their work. He then noticed that the sun was already setting. "Looks like its time I started heading home; you know how Marin gets when I'm late getting home. Good—"he paused for a moment; "See you later." He said instead.
