A/N: sorry for the delay! This one came to me like an hour ago. It's kind of rough, but I like the idea of Impah being Sheik's only source of guidance. Gotta show some respect for that milf!

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29. Time (writer's choice)

"In a few month's more time, Impa, we will both have forgotten. If I stay away now then it will be as it should be."

Impa studied him with a solemn expression, her chin tipping up as it regularly did. She was the only person alive that Sheik had trouble keeping eye contact with. This always brought him tremendous shame; reverence to your elders was as ancient a Sheikan convention as any, and she was the only other one he would ever know.

"That is as foundationless as I've ever heard, Sheik," she admonished owlishly.

"I don't understand," he replied. He thought he was being very sensible, and silently prayed that she did not suspect his true weakness for Malon.

"If it was the beginning of this intrigue with the girl, then, yes it would be very responsible to end it. But the reality is that our culture, our rules, our etiquette is now very archaic. It does not apply anymore."

She paused to consider him, and then carried on.

"You also must consider the girl. Are you prepared to break her heart? She does not even have her father anymore."

Sheik tensed at this, shying from her gaze. "Time will heal her."

"Don't pretend to know the power of Time," she snapped angrily. "It is powerful, but works in different ways then your twenty years claim to know. Time both heals wounds and makes them worse. It cools the heat of hate or makes it fester. It makes men wise and then drives them to senility. It turns love into strength inside of you, or weakens you and shatters your joy. Do not underestimate it!"

There was a long pause between the two Sheikah.

"You are in love with this girl," she continued, in a far softer tone. At this time Sheik hung his head and rubbed his eyes in frustration. After a few minutes he nodded in submission.

"I have never felt this way before - - It would destroy me to see her harmed."

"Then do not let her go."