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Wolfie: By Your Side, I Shall Stay…
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Link found, not evening knowing this girl for most than a week, that he strangely adored her. It was…hard not to. Even if he was reluctant to admit it at first.
When he had first been summoned here by Hylia's will, he had no knowledge or idea of what had happened or where he would find the next Chosen Hero.
Link had been in this Hyrule for over a month before he felt the pull. He found her in a fight—sword breaking on her. So he did what was instinctual—defend.
Quickly, Link found this Chosen was so curious about the world she had forgotten—albeit he wouldn't know she had forgotten everything for a few days—but seeing the glee and excitement was startling childlike and pure in a way Link had never really seen before.
It was like she was a child seeing the world for the first time—but that was it, wasn't it? Wasn't that what she was experiencing?
The way she grinned or potter back and forth from the road to just take a closer look at something that had caught her eye. A mushroom, a bird, a fish in the river…
(She stared skyward, eyes wide in awe as the rain fell.
It was almost comical—like she'd never seen rain before…what was so fascinating about rain? Link asked himself in confusion.
Yet she stared and stared and Link thought for a split second she was going to cry. This girl, who he had only known for a few hours, most of those she had slept for, was just peculiar. Who reacted to rain like this?)
It had annoyed him at first—they were making no progress and yet, after the first few times, Link—or Wolfie as she'd taking to croaking out, he had sighed but accepted the name—couldn't deny it. Couldn't deny Lynk.
(He would later learn of the difference of spelling and the fact her full name was Lynkura.)
She showed great skills however she got distracted easily, but despite that unfortunate habit, her eyes were always sharp. Like she was excepting something to come crawling out to attack her, even if subconsciously.
The first time it happened, Wolfie hadn't had the chance to even leap at the Chuchu before Lynk had struck it down with a single swing of her sword. He was impressed.
Getting her to sleep somewhere warm and safe was impossible but Wolfie was coming to realise she was scared of people and when she made conversation it was stilted and almost non-verbal, her throat notwithstanding.
Lynk seemed fine with no talking, thriving with it really but there was clear moments where she wanted to voice something but wasn't able to. Wolfie doubts she realised, either that she makes a face when she does or that she wants to speak in the first place.
Arriving in Kakariko Village was like a blessing—Lynk had managed to get distracted by Hestu which added an additional ten minutes to their journey—and it was another blessing that none of the Sheikah spoke out about having a wolf his size within the village (which—that had been a shock, he had never been this big once upon a time). Maybe it was because he calmly walked beside Lynk that they deemed him tame?
The woman, Impa, fills in much for both his charge and himself.
Amnesia and death.
Wolfie knew amnesia was hard on anyone, memories of Ilia come to him, but also knowing you'd failed one hundred years ago…
He could see the agony in Lynk's eyes, even if she hid it behind a blank expression.
Her hands shook and ears drooped, the knowledge haunted her thoughts. He could see the weight it had settled on her shoulders—that she was supposed to save Hyrule and had failed all those years ago, letting thousands of people die and now she had to face this Calamity again, only this time with no memories and the knowledge of what she had let unfold at her failure.
Of what she can't allow to happen again.
That if she didn't do it right this time, then there was nothing else that could be done.
Wolfie loathes that he can't shift into his Hylian form to comfort with words, it leaves a tearing sensation behind his ribcage.
What a cruel, cruel fate his cub had.