Princess Zelda ran through the chambers of Hyrule castle as fast as she could "Merriam!!" she called searching every room every corner of the castle. "Merriam." Her hair has not been fixed and she was still in her bed clothes. People hid their eyes from her view as she flew down halls.
She ran right into one of the guards at the bottom of the stairwell. Both of them toppled over. The guard was in a fury when he got back to his feet, he was about to lash out with his sword when he realized who it was that he was about to strike out at.
"OH dear Princess Zelda." he said dropping to the ground on his knees face planted to the floor. "I didn't know it was you, please forgive me." he pleaded.
The princess gott o her feet and fixed her bed clothes as much as she could before she realized that he was humble before him. She was a bit confused still as she told the guard to rise. He complied standing up straight not looking at her. She was about to walk away before she realized what she was doing
"Guard, tell me where the seer when." She said, the guard only looked as if he didn't understand her.
"My seer, Merriam."
She watched as the gentle expression of understanding and recognition crossed his face.
"yes, sh..she went to the market this morning." he said still not looking at her all that much except for casual glanced. By this time others had gathered to see what the commotion was.
"Thank you sir." Zelda told him before gathering what dignity she still has and moved back up the stairs. One of her many advisers had come to collect her. "Make sure that as soon as Merriam returns she come to me. I have many things to discuss with her." Zelda said before tromping up the stairs not waiting for her adviser to catch up, which he did
"Princess, you have a meeting with a chancellor of neighboring lands of Sperrwyn tonight." the advisor told her as he made best of pushing he spectacles up on his nose trying to keep pace with the princess who show no sign of recognition
"Princess, this is your duty to meet and form alliances with other lands. You father would have done the same."
Zelda turned on him all of a sudden as the entered the main chamber. "Don't tell me of my father as if I never knew him. I know what is my obligation to this kingdom. I also know what is my obligation to the tri-force!" she said with a powerful voice that seemed to shatter the sternness of the advisor. He stepped back "I am sorry your majesty, idf I have offended. I know your commitment to your faith. If you wish I will tell King Usaide that you will be busy tonight and we can reschedule." he said humbly bending before her.
"No, I will meet with King Usaide of Sperrwyn. This is my duty to this Kingdom." She said placing a hand on her advisors shoulder. "I am still tired, I will retire to my chambers, inform Merriam to come to me when she returns."
Princess Zelda closed the door to her chamber and stocked over to her bed. "Link she said looking into the mirror. I fear for you. If my dreams speak true, then I will be there with you to see you through the tasks that will befall you."
Zelda dressed herself and sat in front of her mirror eyeing the Ocarina. Her mind went back all those years to when the events happened. A great sadness came over her. She knew that she could not tell him when he returned to her garden that morning after he had saved Hyrule. She could not tell him that she knew everything that happened, that she had seen it in a powerful dream. A tear rolled down her cheek when she thought of him. But realizing that nothing could change that past. She swept the tear away.
Zelda sat there for a moment concentrating on nothing but gaining her composure, until she heard a noise just outside her winder. She got up to investigate the noise. She opened the large windows, and was welcomed by the morning breeze. Full of life, and Majick. Her garden was growing like a jungle now full of exotic flowers and vines crawling up the walls., but nothing was out there other than the birds taking to the skies.
"Princess," came a voice from behind her. Zelda whipped around to see who was there "You called for me."
It was Merriam
Zelda was startled but calmed quickly. "Yes, I did." she said talking back to her chair in front of the mirror. She went to brush her hair, when Merriam laid a hand on her shoulder. "Princess, my young goddess, your not telling me why you wanted me here with such haste. You do know that one of the guards went to the market to bring me back." She said sitting in a chair next to her. Zelda made not effort to speak. She quietly brushed her hair with a almost vacant expression on her face, staring back at her.
Merriam was pulling the emotion out of the air like it were a thick perfume. Until she came back to Zelda She touched Zelda's arm and she stopped brushing
"I know that you have been having bad dreams, but I am not sure what about, I am not that powerful a seer, however the young man is very important to you, is he not?" She asked
Zelda put the brush down on the table and sighed before saying his name "Link." she worded softly "very important, from my past…I have not seen him in 7 years. And now I have dreams of him."
Merriam thought on the name for a second "Link, he feels courageous even important to the sages." she said softly
"You know of the sages?" Zelda asked
"Oh yes, when I was young I was told of the great sage, and now that I came into my powers like all of my family before me I see them in dreams and visions. They are what led me to you."
"I know of them as well, Link once saved this land with the help of the sages he defeated the evil Gannondorf from using the tri-force to destroy. But that was a long time in a different time. Of course no one knew this because it hasn't happened yet, and it never will. Gannondorf is trapped where time is not time. And the worst is Link is the only one that knows this. Even I had not seen it with my own eyes, but I have seen it with my mind, so vividly that it was as if I were there every second of of his journey. He doesn't know that I know. And so he has not come back. He fears that It will bring the 3 parts of the tri-force together again."
Merriam pondered all of this with a long sigh.
"You speak of the tri-force, what does you two being together mean in terms of the tri-force?" she asked
"because the two of us are keepers of a whole. I carry wisdom, he courage, and…"
"Gannondorf carries power."
"yes, so his apprehension is founded, but I know that we belong together, we were chosen by the tri-force itself." Zelda rose from her chair, and walked over to the bed.
"Well you are a visionary, if you decree something to be, then why have you not followed your heart?" Merriam asked
Zelda reached under her bed and pulled a box from underneath. The box was made of solid wood with little golden hinges on the lid. And a crest of the tri-force. She opened it and inside sat a small harp, under the harp was a blue suit.
"Impa gave this to me a long time ago before she…left…In my visions I saw myself wearing this when I came to link, at the time Gannondorf would have done anything to find me to use me against Link, I wore it to hide my identity from both Gannondorf and Link. I taught Link the magical songs to play on the Ocarina of time that would help him along the way. The harp was my magical instrument, as the ocarina was his. I have a new song to play, and to teach him from the dreams, but do I dare?"
Merriam climbed to her feet and walked over to her "Zelda, do what you think is right. I am a seer not a fortune teller, but I can tell you this. You thoughts are pure and purity can never be the wrong thing."
"Link was suffering in these dreams…I can't tel that happen. I have to wear this, and assume the role no matter the cost." Zelda exclaimed.
"Then walk the way of the Tri-force."
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