It was only days later when they found themselves floating around Hyrule, adrift on a wooden boat with a roof, but no sail. The sky was cloudy, still raining, and no end seemed to be in sight. Dora leaned over the side of the boat, her finger tips grazing the water elegantly. He watched her with admiration, and like always, she began to talk.
"So eventually the new world will be a lot of water and a few islands?"
"I imagine. We'll build a fortress, and search for Zelda's daughter."
"You'll summon some minions to help out with all this labor, right?"
Ganondorf chuckled, and while he did it out of amusement, if was full of malevolence. "Of course."
"What about the hero?"
"If we find Zelda, or the Triforce of Wisdom, the hero will come to us. You know that," he answered impatiently.
Dora nodded slowly, watching the water ripples disappear as they sped away from the boat. She sighed and closed her eyes, resting her head against her arm.
"Tell me," he commanded.
"What?"
"You are keeping something from me."
"Almost a century apart and you still know everything about me?" Dora asked, laughing.
Ganondorf lifted an eyebrow at her. "The King of Evil does not marry because he foolishly listens to his heart, or because he laid eyes upon a beautiful woman. I know you, better than you know yourself, and yet you still leave me guessing at times."
Dora smirked, then frowned again. "Promise you won't get mad?"
He closed his eyes. On many occasions she began an explanation like this, and each one ended with him not talking to her for a week, just so that he could avoid killing her. In this case though, he was concerned. "Speak, woman."
"I was pregnant."
Ganondorf's eyes shot open. His breathing quickened. He let her speak.
"I didn't find out until months after they locked me up. I was going through so many emotions, I never considered it until I started showing, started feeling her precious hiccups and kicks. I was certainly tired, but I thought it was from the torture. They let me carry her to full term," Dora explained, her voice growing tight. "But then when I gave birth to her in that wretched cell I never got to hold her, smell her, or even see her. They cut the cord and gave her to a family with no children in Hyrule market. I'm sure she is old, with grandchildren now, but I have harbored my hate at knowing our daughter was taken from us."
He clenched his fists at her raw emotions. It was obviously the first she had divulged this secret to any soul, and he knew he was the most important.
"I know you don't want to consider children or anything, that you aren't ready for fatherhood, at least not yet. I bonded with her while I was pregnant. I told her all about you, even about how much I missed you. I did all this, even though I knew deep in my heart I would not be keeping her, because I would love to be the mother of your child one day."
She immediately crawled into his open arms, pouring her tears into his chest and wetting his shirt. When anger overcame her in a powerful wave, she beat her fist against his firm chest. The tears eased her pain, the sadness and anger faded, and she was able to breathe again.
"This is why my revenge cannot come soon enough."
Ganondorf placed a hand on the back of her head. He guarded against his emotions, but accepted hers with understanding. "You will have it," he promised.