Chapter Eight:
"Pamiea…?" Link whispered to himself, but loud enough for it to be heard by the old woman sitting at the table.
"Yes…does my name interest you in some way?" She said with what Link thought was a laugh. He tried to gather his senses so that he could ask the questions he had been waiting to ask.
"I've been wondering when I was going to find you," Link spoke almost unconsciously aware to what was coming out of his mouth.
"What do you mean?" Pamiea asked somewhat suspicious. "I ask you again, what were you doing in the river?"
"I was looking for you," was Link's honest answer. Pamiea glared at him from where she was sitting. She was not about to trust everything this young boy was going to tell her, she had been suspicious of him from the start and now his odd declaration seemed to prove her decision to mistrust him.
"What do you mean 'looking for me'?"
"I am on a quest," was Link's answer.
"A quest you say? A quest for what?" She said peering up at him. Link was frozen for a moment trying to find an response for Pamiea's question.
"I…I don't know what exactly yet, but…"
The woman's eyes narrowed as her lips pinched at the corners.
"You don't know what you are looking for?! How can that be? Surly you would know something…" The old woman accused.
"I swear that I do not know my main goal as of this moment," Link stuttered, "but I am sure that my presence here is necessary to my mission or else I would not be here."
"Who sent you?" Pamiea interrogated. Link tried to keep his wits about him as he was assaulted with woman's questions.
"I had a vision…" He started.
"Oh a vision? That still doesn't explain…"
"If you would let me finish!" Link said with an elevated voice.
"I have heard enough!" Pamiea says as she turns to the door. Link needed to act quickly.
"It told me to go to the Gerudo and ask them what happened thirty- seven years ago!" Link called after her. Pamiea stopped in her tracks and turned to face him. Her shoulders had become tense, and the wrinkles around her cheeks had become more dominant in appearance.
"Who did you say you talked to?" She said slowly. Link relaxed a bit.
"The Gerudo told me that a small group left the Nation. They were banished for rebellion. Their leader was a young Gerudo named Pamiea," he sighed heavily. The old woman walked back to him.
"We were not banished," she said in a very low tone, deep and foreboding, "we left under our own free will. Did they tell you why we left?" Link was hesitant to answer the tempered woman.
"Your open rebellion was changing the way the rest of the Gerudo were thinking," Link repeated the words of Tiamra. "You wanted to live a lifestyle away from the Gerudo traditions and…"
"Ha! Was that what they told you? Those, those lies!?" She spit on the ground next to them. "Hag rodu thuy!" She turned her back to him in her anger and took a few steps away. Link could see that her temper was rising as she clenched her fists and tensed up. For a moment he thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea that he let his sword and shield and the Hake's house.
"I think your anger is a little misplaced," he told her and backed away further a few steps. Suddenly, Pamiea's face dropped, her fists unclenched and she sighed deeply. Her eyes relaxed, no longer filled with her burning hatred of the Gerudo, but instead with sorrow. She still faced away from Link and they both stood a standstill in the center of the room.
"You are right," she said gradually with a sorrowful tone, her mood completely changed. "I am sorry, I don't know what came over me." With very slow movements, Pamiea went back to her seat and sat down in it. She stared blankly off into space, and then placed her elbows on the table and rested her head against her arms.
Link walked to where she had taken her seat again and sat across from her. He looked at this old woman and wondered what could have happened to her to make her act so.
"What was the reason you left?" He asked in a more sympathetic voice. Pamiea looked up at him, a thousand memories stirring within her.
"I…I don't want to remember," she moaned. Link could now she the sorrow in her eyes and his words almost left him.
"Please, tell me," Link urged. "It maybe the reason I'm here." He reached out and placed his hand on hers. "Please."
Pamiea glanced up at the young youth sitting before her; only a select few knew her secret, but why did she feel drawn to tell this boy? Her mind was not willing to yield the information, but her heart persisted and finally won. She started slowly, trying to remember all of the memories that she had so long repressed.
"I was lying just a minute ago to you when I said that the Gerudo had lied to you. They told you what happened only to the point where they themselves would look good. There is more to the story…"
***
"I guess it all started with me. I had fallen in love with a hansom young man that I dare say I could not live without," she smiled in thought of her husband, out in the fields by now no doubt, who had thought her paranoid indeed to bother questioning the boy. She would be pleased to tell him that he was wrong. "We wanted to get married, but Gerudo law stood in our way, so I ran away with him. To say the least I bore him a child, a son." Pamiea smiled warmly to herself as she looked at the floor, no doubt remembering what had past. "Though apart from the Gerudo Nation, I still held on closely to their beliefs and their ways. If you know the Gerudo no doubt you know that there is only one male born to the Gerudo within one hundred years, and he is destined to lead them. I wanted what any mother would want for her child, so I returned home, to the Gerudo Fortress." She now clenched her fists and could begin to hear sobs forming in her throat. Link was holding onto every word. Tears had begun to form in the old woman's eyes, something terrible had happened.
"When I brought my son back and claimed him as the future King of the Gerudo many didn't believe me. Talking had started among my Gerudo sisters, only a handful believed that my child was the chosen one. Indeed I was changing the ways that we were thinking. But…one night…" She let out a giant sob and buried her face into her kerchief, she started to cry. "But one night…as I was sleeping…they…they…they took him away!" She cried, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I…I looked every where, I couldn't find him anywhere! When I went to the Gerudo leaders and demanded that they return him to me they said they didn't know anything about it. But I know it was they, they were afraid of him! They were afraid of him!" She was yelling now and Link was getting concerned. Pamiea's body trembled slightly with emotional energy as the woman tried to control herself. "I didn't know what to do, where to go; my child was gone!" She pauses for breath. "One night, my husband and I received a letter saying that if we wanted our child to live, we had to take our followers and leave." The sobbing starts to subside. "You know the rest."
Link couldn't believe it. Why would the Gerudo do such a thing? To steal a child away from its mother! It was ridiculous!
"I am sorry," was all Link could say after this shocking news. "I don't know what else to say." Pamiea looked up at him.
"Say nothing," she said. "It was along time ago, and though I still long for my lost child I have a family now that needs me." She sighed heavily to calm herself and paused before speaking. "I don't know why I told you this. But I had this strong feeling that I should tell you. Only a few know…"
"It will be safe with me," Link comforted. Pamiea smiled at him.
"Now come, lets hear of your vision."
***
Link told her all that he knew of his mission, including the strange silhouette that appeared to him in his dream. Pamiea thought that it must be the one the vision told him about, the girl that was to save him. But when Link asked Pamiea said she knew no such girl. But Link did find out about an old cave on one of the ridges surrounding the village that the villagers used to use to enter in and out of the valley along time ago. Eventually it became too dangerous to travel due to cave-ins and then Keese infestations, so they no longer used it. That all happened before the first children were born in Murieope so only the village elders, the first to settle the town, knew about it. Pamiea said it was still there, though she would not travel it if she were him. Link thanked her a great deal and walked out to where Megeara was waiting for him in the hallway. Thankfully it seemed that she was not out there the whole time and never heard the shouting that he and Pamiea had thrown back and forth.
"How did it go?" She asked.
"Fine, your grandmother is quite a remarkable woman," Link told her. Megeara smiled at him as they walked together back to the Hake's home. They walked up the path to the front door and Megeara went in.
"Hussa?" Megeara said as the poked her head around the door. Mrs. Hake was attending to some mending at the table and her mother-in-law, Re'ale, was helping her. They look up from their work.
"Oh, hello Meg, Link, I hope that everything went well," Mrs. Hake said to them. Apparently news travels fast in a small town.
"It went fine," Megeara and Link said together in unison.
"Well good. Navi is down by the river I believe with Staceana, Lycus, and Loraefin. I think Laelaps and Acantha went with them, and Joshuan took the other two dogs fishing with your brother," she informed them.
"Ok Lindie," Megeara said and then she and Link left. Once they were outside she added, "I hope that Jazhun doesn't fall into the water again. You should have seen him last time they went fishing, Galvin and Witt thought it would be funny to scare him and he was so startled he fell in," Megeara laughed. Her laughter was somewhat unusual, but ultimately endearing and added to the air of charm about her. Megeara had inherited the Gerudo red hair, which matched her personality it seemed, adventurous and energetic. Her Hylian skin was fair, and very beautiful, highlighting her also Hylian eyes perfectly. Megeara started to walk back up the street after a short pause between the two.
"Where are you going?" Link asked her as she turns around.
"I gotta go home and finish some chores from this morning. You could probably go find Joshuan and my brother or something," she said before veering around and continuing back home.
Link was left alone in front of the Hake's house. He thought it best to go and meet up with Navi like he said he would, plus the fact he had nothing else to do contributed to the decision.
"Pamiea…?" Link whispered to himself, but loud enough for it to be heard by the old woman sitting at the table.
"Yes…does my name interest you in some way?" She said with what Link thought was a laugh. He tried to gather his senses so that he could ask the questions he had been waiting to ask.
"I've been wondering when I was going to find you," Link spoke almost unconsciously aware to what was coming out of his mouth.
"What do you mean?" Pamiea asked somewhat suspicious. "I ask you again, what were you doing in the river?"
"I was looking for you," was Link's honest answer. Pamiea glared at him from where she was sitting. She was not about to trust everything this young boy was going to tell her, she had been suspicious of him from the start and now his odd declaration seemed to prove her decision to mistrust him.
"What do you mean 'looking for me'?"
"I am on a quest," was Link's answer.
"A quest you say? A quest for what?" She said peering up at him. Link was frozen for a moment trying to find an response for Pamiea's question.
"I…I don't know what exactly yet, but…"
The woman's eyes narrowed as her lips pinched at the corners.
"You don't know what you are looking for?! How can that be? Surly you would know something…" The old woman accused.
"I swear that I do not know my main goal as of this moment," Link stuttered, "but I am sure that my presence here is necessary to my mission or else I would not be here."
"Who sent you?" Pamiea interrogated. Link tried to keep his wits about him as he was assaulted with woman's questions.
"I had a vision…" He started.
"Oh a vision? That still doesn't explain…"
"If you would let me finish!" Link said with an elevated voice.
"I have heard enough!" Pamiea says as she turns to the door. Link needed to act quickly.
"It told me to go to the Gerudo and ask them what happened thirty- seven years ago!" Link called after her. Pamiea stopped in her tracks and turned to face him. Her shoulders had become tense, and the wrinkles around her cheeks had become more dominant in appearance.
"Who did you say you talked to?" She said slowly. Link relaxed a bit.
"The Gerudo told me that a small group left the Nation. They were banished for rebellion. Their leader was a young Gerudo named Pamiea," he sighed heavily. The old woman walked back to him.
"We were not banished," she said in a very low tone, deep and foreboding, "we left under our own free will. Did they tell you why we left?" Link was hesitant to answer the tempered woman.
"Your open rebellion was changing the way the rest of the Gerudo were thinking," Link repeated the words of Tiamra. "You wanted to live a lifestyle away from the Gerudo traditions and…"
"Ha! Was that what they told you? Those, those lies!?" She spit on the ground next to them. "Hag rodu thuy!" She turned her back to him in her anger and took a few steps away. Link could see that her temper was rising as she clenched her fists and tensed up. For a moment he thought that maybe it wasn't such a good idea that he let his sword and shield and the Hake's house.
"I think your anger is a little misplaced," he told her and backed away further a few steps. Suddenly, Pamiea's face dropped, her fists unclenched and she sighed deeply. Her eyes relaxed, no longer filled with her burning hatred of the Gerudo, but instead with sorrow. She still faced away from Link and they both stood a standstill in the center of the room.
"You are right," she said gradually with a sorrowful tone, her mood completely changed. "I am sorry, I don't know what came over me." With very slow movements, Pamiea went back to her seat and sat down in it. She stared blankly off into space, and then placed her elbows on the table and rested her head against her arms.
Link walked to where she had taken her seat again and sat across from her. He looked at this old woman and wondered what could have happened to her to make her act so.
"What was the reason you left?" He asked in a more sympathetic voice. Pamiea looked up at him, a thousand memories stirring within her.
"I…I don't want to remember," she moaned. Link could now she the sorrow in her eyes and his words almost left him.
"Please, tell me," Link urged. "It maybe the reason I'm here." He reached out and placed his hand on hers. "Please."
Pamiea glanced up at the young youth sitting before her; only a select few knew her secret, but why did she feel drawn to tell this boy? Her mind was not willing to yield the information, but her heart persisted and finally won. She started slowly, trying to remember all of the memories that she had so long repressed.
"I was lying just a minute ago to you when I said that the Gerudo had lied to you. They told you what happened only to the point where they themselves would look good. There is more to the story…"
***
"I guess it all started with me. I had fallen in love with a hansom young man that I dare say I could not live without," she smiled in thought of her husband, out in the fields by now no doubt, who had thought her paranoid indeed to bother questioning the boy. She would be pleased to tell him that he was wrong. "We wanted to get married, but Gerudo law stood in our way, so I ran away with him. To say the least I bore him a child, a son." Pamiea smiled warmly to herself as she looked at the floor, no doubt remembering what had past. "Though apart from the Gerudo Nation, I still held on closely to their beliefs and their ways. If you know the Gerudo no doubt you know that there is only one male born to the Gerudo within one hundred years, and he is destined to lead them. I wanted what any mother would want for her child, so I returned home, to the Gerudo Fortress." She now clenched her fists and could begin to hear sobs forming in her throat. Link was holding onto every word. Tears had begun to form in the old woman's eyes, something terrible had happened.
"When I brought my son back and claimed him as the future King of the Gerudo many didn't believe me. Talking had started among my Gerudo sisters, only a handful believed that my child was the chosen one. Indeed I was changing the ways that we were thinking. But…one night…" She let out a giant sob and buried her face into her kerchief, she started to cry. "But one night…as I was sleeping…they…they…they took him away!" She cried, tears rolling down her cheeks. "I…I looked every where, I couldn't find him anywhere! When I went to the Gerudo leaders and demanded that they return him to me they said they didn't know anything about it. But I know it was they, they were afraid of him! They were afraid of him!" She was yelling now and Link was getting concerned. Pamiea's body trembled slightly with emotional energy as the woman tried to control herself. "I didn't know what to do, where to go; my child was gone!" She pauses for breath. "One night, my husband and I received a letter saying that if we wanted our child to live, we had to take our followers and leave." The sobbing starts to subside. "You know the rest."
Link couldn't believe it. Why would the Gerudo do such a thing? To steal a child away from its mother! It was ridiculous!
"I am sorry," was all Link could say after this shocking news. "I don't know what else to say." Pamiea looked up at him.
"Say nothing," she said. "It was along time ago, and though I still long for my lost child I have a family now that needs me." She sighed heavily to calm herself and paused before speaking. "I don't know why I told you this. But I had this strong feeling that I should tell you. Only a few know…"
"It will be safe with me," Link comforted. Pamiea smiled at him.
"Now come, lets hear of your vision."
***
Link told her all that he knew of his mission, including the strange silhouette that appeared to him in his dream. Pamiea thought that it must be the one the vision told him about, the girl that was to save him. But when Link asked Pamiea said she knew no such girl. But Link did find out about an old cave on one of the ridges surrounding the village that the villagers used to use to enter in and out of the valley along time ago. Eventually it became too dangerous to travel due to cave-ins and then Keese infestations, so they no longer used it. That all happened before the first children were born in Murieope so only the village elders, the first to settle the town, knew about it. Pamiea said it was still there, though she would not travel it if she were him. Link thanked her a great deal and walked out to where Megeara was waiting for him in the hallway. Thankfully it seemed that she was not out there the whole time and never heard the shouting that he and Pamiea had thrown back and forth.
"How did it go?" She asked.
"Fine, your grandmother is quite a remarkable woman," Link told her. Megeara smiled at him as they walked together back to the Hake's home. They walked up the path to the front door and Megeara went in.
"Hussa?" Megeara said as the poked her head around the door. Mrs. Hake was attending to some mending at the table and her mother-in-law, Re'ale, was helping her. They look up from their work.
"Oh, hello Meg, Link, I hope that everything went well," Mrs. Hake said to them. Apparently news travels fast in a small town.
"It went fine," Megeara and Link said together in unison.
"Well good. Navi is down by the river I believe with Staceana, Lycus, and Loraefin. I think Laelaps and Acantha went with them, and Joshuan took the other two dogs fishing with your brother," she informed them.
"Ok Lindie," Megeara said and then she and Link left. Once they were outside she added, "I hope that Jazhun doesn't fall into the water again. You should have seen him last time they went fishing, Galvin and Witt thought it would be funny to scare him and he was so startled he fell in," Megeara laughed. Her laughter was somewhat unusual, but ultimately endearing and added to the air of charm about her. Megeara had inherited the Gerudo red hair, which matched her personality it seemed, adventurous and energetic. Her Hylian skin was fair, and very beautiful, highlighting her also Hylian eyes perfectly. Megeara started to walk back up the street after a short pause between the two.
"Where are you going?" Link asked her as she turns around.
"I gotta go home and finish some chores from this morning. You could probably go find Joshuan and my brother or something," she said before veering around and continuing back home.
Link was left alone in front of the Hake's house. He thought it best to go and meet up with Navi like he said he would, plus the fact he had nothing else to do contributed to the decision.