It didn't really occur to me that Link was in fact, a Hylian, until I remembered just how sensitive our ears are. More specifically, how bad I would have squirmed if someone were to do that to me— a Hylian. A part of me wanted to apologize, but another part just wanted to disappear into nothingness and forget it ever happened. The second part was winning this battle so far.

My embarrassment didn't last long though because after a few minutes, we were there. "There" being a dark area with a black wall of twilight standing between us and Castletown. Link hopped off Epona, helping me down right after. Epona didn't seem to like the twilight very much so Link tried soothing her.

In the meantime, I walked towards the black wall, finding it almost alluring in a way. As I got closer to it, I noticed a small whisper like noise coming from it. Once it was only a few feet in front of me, I stopped, staring into as if I'd somehow be able to see through into what used to be there. I lifted my hand and stretched out towards the blackness. What happens if I touch it?

"Rheikah! Get away from that!" Link yells and suddenly I feel myself being pulled away from the twilight and into Link's chest. He moved me away from the black wall and stood between me and it.

"You can't touch it. I'm not sure what might happen to you if you do, and I don't feel like finding out." He says and I recall something he said before about the twilight—that it turned those it touched into spirits. But if that's the case, how can he go through it to clear it out? We'll just have to test his theory later...

Link removed a familiar bag from his own and opened it up, taking out a jar of water given to us by Uli before we left Ordon. He handed it to me, pushing me along to sit by the cliff side a good ways away from the twilight. He sat down beside me and took out the other jar of water for himself, setting it down before taking out the bread and halfing it between us. Link handed me a half and I bit into it almost immediately, not realizing until now how hungry I had gotten over the course of a day.

"We'll camp here for tonight. I'll start on the twilight early tommorrow and hopefully have it all cleared out by the afternoon. Then you can go home and not have to worry about monsters or twilight ever again." Oh, if only he knew. I sighed loudly, getting frustrated with his insistence on doing everything himself. Honestly, was it that hard to see I could actually help him?

I'm starting to think that it would be best to just go the rest of the way myself, twilight or no twilight. At least then I could save myself the embarrassment of Link, the guy who's supposed to be saving Hyrule, finding out I'm a homeless orphan that gets kicked around like trash by a town that never wanted her. Really has a ring to it, right?

Didn't think so.

That night was the first I knowingly and intentionally spent away from the streets of Castletown in years. I hardly slept, as usual, but this time something was off about it. It wasn't out of fear of being caught and thrown out, but the absence of just that. It was a feeling that I'd almost forgotten until now—safety.

Link left early the next morning, just as he said and left me by the cliff side with Epona. Other than the fact my only company was a horse, it wasn't so bad for a while. Eventually though, I got bored and decided to entertain myself with a wall of twilight. Completely normal if you ask me.

I started with throwing things at it: twigs, pebbles, and the occational bug I could find. Then I tried holding things into it: holding a stick through it, an arrow, part of my shoe and on until that bored me as well.

Link said that anyone who touches it is turned into a spirit until the twilight is cleared, and that it shouldn't be touched...

But Link's not here.

That logic in mind, I stood in front of the black wall, staring into the inky reflection of the world that used to be there. I raised my hand to the twilight, inching forward to experience the unknown. Just as the tips of my fingers were about to pass into the twilight, I stopped to reconsider touching it. Link should be nearly done soon and will be heading back. If something happened and he came back early before finishing, what would he think if I wasn't here waiting on him? I sighed, letting my responsible side take the lead in this desicion.

Before I could even move my hand back to my side however, it was grabbed by a strange black hand from inside the twilight. I tried pulling away from it, but it just yanked me forcefully into the twilight. The next thing I know, I was on the ground on the other side of the black wall. All I felt next was pain, until I passed out there in the dirt.

When I woke up again, I was somewhere different. The line where twilight met the light was nowhere to be seen, but the land did look slightly familiar. I looked around to get some idea of where I was, quickly finding out I was still a bit dizzy from the earlier encounter. The thing that grabbed me was gone, thankfully, and I didn't plan on being here when it came back.

I sat up from my spot in the dirt and ended up looking down at myself. I wanted to scream, or wake up from this dream, or just close my eyes and open them up to find it was a hallucination, but I couldn't move. Where I used to have ragged clothes I now had velvet fur a few shades darker than my hair with white streaks in it. Instead of hands or feet, I had four paws and a bushy tail.

What does twilight do to orphans? Why, it turns them into overgrown dogs of course!

I could only wonder if the same happened to Link. It would explain why he's the only one who could save Hyrule, but why'd it happen to me? To avoid a complete mental breakdown from now having a tail, I got up and began walking towards Castletown. Maybe Link would be there to explain some things.

When I got to the bridge that crosses over Lake Hylia, I noticed a strange smell. Like oil of some sort had recently been burned. Most of what I could see on the bridge was all gone, including some boxes that were scorched in the process. Under the thick scent of burnt oil, there was another smell too. It was more of a rustic scent and smelled slightly woods-y. Like trees and leather.

Suddenly, an image flashed through my mind of a panic stricken Link who was surrounded by the fresh burning fire on both sides. My mind was racing, trying to figure out what exactly happened on this bridge. The only way Link would have survived that was if he—splash.

I put my front paws onto the edge of the bridge and looked down, seeing a small black dot dodging a big...something in the water. Last I checked, Link is blonde, but something about that black dot is just so familiar. I think it may have looked up at me, but there was no way for me to tell from such a distance—even when I noticed how drastically the water level had risen.

I got down from the side of the bridge and went back across to the path that goes down to the lake. I didn't go this way very often before, except when the small springs throughout Hyrule field would dry up during hot summers and water was scarce. Sometimes I'd even come here to get a bath.

When I was finally down to the water, I looked back at the black figure. It was a wolf with white markings along its body that looked similar to mine. The Wolf was fighting something — it kind of resembled a giant bug honestly —and was biting at it repeatedly. The bug thing fell dead and burst into a glowing blue light that the wolf absorbed. The Wolf then swam across a small distance to the spirit spring that was here at the lake —I followed it in hope of it being friendly or better yet, Link.

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