10.12.20.
a/n: Oops, didn't realize almost a month had passed. Onto Link's fate!
"Hi My Name is Link"
.chapter 9.
There's a glint in Zelda's eye, and I don't think it means, "Come hither with thine slender lips."
"I have a very important question for you, Link," she speaks slowly, lightly squeezing my shoulders as if to soothe the untamed beast that I am.
My thumb hovers over the Stasis rune. "Of course."
"How did I seem to feel about you?" Guilt flickers across her face, followed by a complicated expression. "In the first two memories, that is. Not this one."
Wow, is it hot out here? Lightning rod questions about your mysterious sex life, am I right?
"Why princess, there are kids present," I laugh awkwardly, adjusting the collar of my Hylian tunic. Seriously, there are two Koroks like a hundred feet away.
She doesn't laugh.
Shit.
Wait, I already said that.
Hetsu's Gift.
And she doesn't seem willing to fill-in-the-blanks this time.
Look, I know I got myself into this situation. I'm a responsible guy. A bit old to take on a secret love child, if that's what I'm missing here, but if I can cradle swift violets down a cliffside then I can carry a baby, dangit. Zelda deserves to know that I think that I know that she knows that I forgot what I was saying.
"You used to be, uh, kinda into me," I confess modestly. I'm a shy boy, alright?
Zelda sighs.
"Link, I hated you."
…
Come again?
She grimaces. "I'm afraid it's true. You were great at everything whereas I couldn't get one thing right. So when you were assigned as my escort, I tried getting rid of you, and in fact said some pretty awful things. I was always sort of hoping you'd trip and eat dirt."
Well, that wish has definitely been fulfilled.
"That first memory was your knighting ceremony, we were hoping it would awaken my powers. Then the memory of Lake Kolomo well, we were just walking, but you followed me everywhere. It was irritating."
The more she talks, the more I feel my soul being sucked towards the luminous stones in my pocket.
Gritting my teeth, I clutch my chest. But my child!
Kass, you traitor! The music he sang over and over and so sweetly to my pointy ears, it was all a lie?
Hold on, why is she telling me all this?
Unless…
Horror growing, I search her face. Her beautiful features soften in pity, the way yours might before you start shooting a blupee full of arrows.
"I see you've guessed it. Yes, I know. You've been keeping something from me, haven't you, Link?" she says quietly.
My tongue feels like sand as one of her hands leaves my shoulder to trace along my gulping throat. It trails up my jaw, falls to my shoulder again before brushing down my wrist. Suddenly her arm swings.
Dazed, and fingers twitching dumbly, I blink up at the slate confiscated high in the air.
The princess puts a fist on her hip and brandishes it at me.
"The Sheikah Slate is broken, isn't it?"