Link's found his imagination getting the best of him as he trudged back to the castle, "Epona, what am I going to do?" he whispered to his only companion now that Navi had left him. He glanced towards the castle, watching as the sun began to set behind the spires, knowing that Zelda was waiting in there for him.
"Link! I can't thank you enough!" Zelda beamed and threw her arms around the boy. At the beginning of his journey, he was naïve and weak, a mere boy. And Zelda, just as young, bestowed a demanding quest upon him, save her kingdom or die. And he had done it, for her, and for the people that surrounded them.
"We must remove this from history," she whispered in his ear, "this will haunt everyone that was involved." He pulled away from the gripping princess, doing nothing to hide the shocked look on his face.
"No, Zelda. I can protect everyone; I can live up to my title." He begged her, clasping her delicate gloved hands in between his rough ones.
The way she looked at him, it was like she was looking into his soul, reading his mind, his feelings.
When he stepped into the castle, he began to remove his mud stained boots, carefully untying and unlacing them until he could slip his foot out with ease. He took his time with the little things, undressing, leading Epona to the stables, putting away his equipment, all the while trying to craft what he was going to say to Zelda. This was going to change absolutely everything, he couldn't help but think that if this went wrong, she would bring him to the Temple of Time and make him put the sword back. He cringed at the thought of losing everything and took a deep breath in.
"Zelda?" He hollered her named through the halls, his voice bouncing back to greet him. She poked her head over the balcony, her blonde hair forming curtains on either side of her beautiful face.
"You're back!" He smiled at the enthusiasm in her voice and thought to himself that this might work in his favor. "Quick! Come up here!"
A smile stretched across his face and he ran up the stairs, two by two. This was it, he was finally going to get all of this off his chest and they could finally be together. As he approached her room, the smell of her drifted towards him.
"Look!" She pulled the hero over towards the window.
And that's when his heart skipped a beat and a smiled spread across his face like wildfire, only expanding the one that was plastered there before.
His old friend, Navi, began bouncing back through the wind towards the castle.