Chapter 50: Comfort
I hadn't thought that slave Link would be so against his going back home. Then again, it did make perfect sense when you thought about it, I mean, who would want to go back to a place where you were enslaved? Nobody, that's who! Either way, though, we still had to go.
As we made out way back, and out of the Death Mountain area, I noticed that slave Link seemed to be thinking more and more about it, I tried telling him that it would be okay, but it didn't seem to help much. I figured that something as horrible as being a slave could never simply be forgotten. I mean, up until a few months ago, it was all that he knew and I felt sorry for him.
It was somewhere around the third day of us travelling back that I had the brilliant idea of trying to lighten the mood by being a little funny. After a while, I had gotten the other two to laugh (mostly knight Link), but it didn't seem to do much for slave Link. He just wouldn't cheer up. I sighed, finding that we had come right back to him being so distraught that he would barely even speak. It was like nothing that neither knight Link nor I did to make him feel more comfortable with us had ever happened.
Knight Link basically figured that the sooner we got it over with, the better and frankly, I agreed with him. Putting it off or prolonging it would be almost like teasing someone with torture and not even going in the first place would be downright out of the question. I was a horrible dilemma, but we just had to deal with it. Although knight Link did suggest that I give slave Link a pep talk because I apparently always knew exactly what to say to people.
So, I started talking to slave Link one on one because having knight Link there might make it seem a little bit more like an interrogation, which was the exact opposite of what we needed at that point. I immediately figured out that it was exactly what I thought it was. Then, slave Link told me that, although he didn't want to go back, he knew that we had to. It was then that I assured him that we would be spending as little time over there as possible, which cheered him up just enough for him to smile for just a little while. A few days after that, we finally found our way back to Hyrule Castle Town and the best part was that we made it in the morning, so we had all day to see Zelda…
