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Chapter 34

"I'll get that boy if it's the last thing I do!" Néjora yelled as he flew ahead of Délyn. Néjora ordered the Gerudo warriors to halt. Coming to the group gathered at the edge of Hyrule Field's one river, Néjora settled to the ground and commenced to yelling a bunch of stuff at the warriors.

Délyn walked slowly towards the group. She stopped a good ways off. She didn't want to be absorbed into the yelling and orders and curses. Right now, she wanted to be alone.

"What is with you warriors? Can your horses not swim!" Néjora let out a sigh of aggravation and turned away from the mounted Gerudo he'd been talking to. "Look at this mess. Twenty Gerudos fallen because of a boy and an outcast! Not one killed by an arrow, no! They were shot off their horses and trampled by the rest of the group! And a Peahat killed the rest! A Peahat!" Néjora walked over to Délyn and let out another sigh. "Why didn't you just pull him to the ground with your shadows, Sister?"

Délyn stared at the ground. "Who?" she said absently.

"Link. Why didn't you try and help stop him?" Néjora's voice ha evened out, but it was starting to rise in volume again.

Délyn looked away to her right, towards Kokiri Forest. "I… I don't know…"

"What do you mean you don't know? Link's the enemy! He caused Father to..." Néjora suddenly stopped in his rant. He looked at Délyn for a long time. Then Néjora took his hands and turned Délyn's face so she was forced to look at his eyes. "Délyn," he said gently, "what's wrong? What's troubling you?"

Délyn forced herself to smile and bring her hands up to his on her cheeks. "It's nothing, Néjora. Just a little tired," she said, and at that moment a wolf howled in the distance and the sun completely slipped away, leaving Hyrule to the night. Délyn slowly pushed Néjora's hands away from her face.

Néjora nodded, letting the subject drop for the moment. "It is getting late. But we can't let Link get away!" Néjora turned back to the warriors. He pointed to three of them. "You, you're coming with me to find the boy. The rest of you go back to Gerudo Fortress. Délyn, sister, you go back home and get some rest. And check on the king. Come on," he motioned to the three he'd singled out, "time to learn how to swim."

Néjora glanced back at Délyn before he went floating over the water. Délyn imitated a lop-sided grin, and Néjora seemed satisfied. After the Gerudos had gone and the three and Néjora had let to Zora's River, Délyn turned and started walking in the direction of Gerudo Valley. She knew Néjora sensed her confused mind. But she couldn't tell him what was bothering her, not yet. Something ha happened back at Lake Hylia. There, lying on top of Link, for a brief moment she had been able to feel his mind again. To read his thoughts.

She had let him kiss her on the cheek.

Dark: Darn, I just realized that the editing font is different from my typing font. Gotta fix that...