Chapter 13
"YEAH!!!" Dmitri yelled
I hugged Dmitri and we jumped up and down happy as ever that we'd got away. We stopped and I pulled him in and kissed him before I backed away and started cheering again. Dmitri stood stunned while I danced around him.
I sat down then lie down. Dmitri lied down next to me. I was overwhelmed with happiness about escaping Ganondorf but then again, now he would be coming after me. I also was curious as to why he needed me so much. Link was the hero of time. I just had visions.
"So, where to now?" Dmitri asked, "I mean, how long have we been traveling together?"
"Um, lets see. We didn't stay but a few days at Lon Lon. About a 3 months at Hylia and too many months in a desert. I'm dying for a good swim that doesn't transport me across Hyrule"
I began to get dizzy and my vision blurred. I closed my eyes but when I opened them, I wasn't lying next to Dmitri anymore. I was in a beautiful place. The walls shone blue and looked like water falling down but there was no sound to be heard. I stood on a platform like the one I'd seen in front of the Forest Temple and at Lake Hylia. However, there was no symbol within the Triforce. The platform was on high ground for if you looked off the edge it seemed never ending. Around the platform I stood on were six other ones at each point of the hexagon one I was on. Each was a different color and had a unique symbol different from the others.
Suddenly I was forced back to reality. Dmitri was still talking as if nothing had happened.
"Sairalinde"
I still had my eyes closed so I assumed it was Dmitri who called my name
"Dmitri, you know I hate it when you call me that"
"It wasn't --"
"Alatariel"
That did it. I hated being called by my most formal name. 'Alatariel' was my true Elvish name that I allowed no one to call me and besides, no one was supposed to know it. However I knew Dmitri wouldn't dare call me by it so I knew it wasn't him this time. I opened my eyes and tilted my head backward so I was staring at Zelda, aka Sheik, standing upside down, or from my point of view at least.
"Oh, thank the gods you're safe" she said. Obviously she had been testing it was really me.
"Safe? Yeah, Ganondorf had no reason to harm me until I pissed him off." I said
"If you had been lost --"
"They had no reason to kill her" Dmitri interrupted, "If they wanted Link, she needed to be alive"
"Ganondorf doesn't know much about your destiny, which is good for now"
"My destiny?" I said in surprise
"I need both of you to go stay at Zora's Domain. King Zora will keep an eye on you"
"Keep an eye on me?" I protested, "Did you not just see how we managed to get away from the great Ganondork himself?"
"I saw you, but you got lucky. The Great Faery of Magic did not have to help you" Zelda said
"But --" I rose to my feet
"No!" Zelda said firmly, but I wanted my say. Princess or not.
"My brother is missing. For nearly 3 years I have waited patiently. It was agonizing and I will not be made to wait again. I was a prisoner for nearly 6 months. 6 MONTHS! By now I could have found him"
"How old are you?" Zelda said abruptly
"What?"
"How old are you?"
"Nearly 11"
"I am naught 4 years older but I have been searching for Link ever since that fateful day. You remember it well, don't you, Saira? You saw it"
"And the fact that I saw it makes me even more wanting to find him" I said angrily.
"I will not force you to go but I will ask that you do" Zelda said calmly, "I have my reasons but you are too young to know"
Zelda threw something on the ground blinding Dmitri and me with light forcing me to shield my eyes. When it faded, Zelda was nowhere to be seen.
"Just because she used to be royalty doesn't mean she can boss me around," I said sitting back down
"I still say she's hiding something from you" Dmitri said staring at the spot where Zelda had been standing
"I know she is. We'll camp her tonight and leave for Zora's Domain in the morning" I said pulling out my sleeping bag.
"Love, are you alright?"
"I'm fine," I said flatly
"Don't lie to me," Dmitri said, "I've known you too long"
"It's just." I paused for a minutes before continuing extremely fast "It's just that everyone thinks I'm too young to know anything. And they'll keep saying it until they say I should have known when I'm this age. And they never tell you the full story. They always leave something out that is important but they don't want to tell you because they're afraid you cant handle it"
I continued to ramble until Dmitri covered my mouth
"I've never known you to give up on anything. You poured over books for weeks trying to learn about Link's destiny. Just do it again and --" Dmitri stopped. There was a look of shock and curiosity on his face. He removed his hand and turned me around.
It was amazing. The world in front of us looked as if it was coming together. I closed my eyes and rubbed them making sure I wasn't having another vision, but I wasn't. Everything continued to swirl together until and opening appeared.
"What is it?" Dmitri asked mischievously
"Saria said portals appear that take you to the other worlds"
"Other worlds? You mean away from Hyrule?" That lit a fire in Dmitri's head as he walked towards it
"Dmitri dont. You don't know where it goes"
"That's what makes it fun" he said
Dmitri touched it and he was sucked in
"DMITRI!" I screamed. I grabbed my bad and ran into it just as it began to fade. I felt like I was going down wet slide really fast. Light was all around me. I finally landed hard on the ground shooting pain through my body.
I stood up rubbing my back and butt as I looked around. Dmitri was staggering towards me.
"What a rush"
But I wasn't listening. We were in a alley behind an enormous building that was at least 100 feet tall.
"Where are we?" I asked quietly
"How should I know.. whoa. Love, look!" Dmitri said as he peered around the corner of the building, wide-eyed.
I walked over to where he was standing and gasped. The buildings were nothing of that in Hyrule. They seemed to span to the heavens. Odd round things on sticks lit cement roads. People walked the streets in strange clothing.
Dmitri and I started crossing the street when an enormous 'thing' made an awful sound and swerved around us. I jumped on Dmitri and he carried me over to the edge. We rested up again another building. Dmitri sat down and held me in his lap.
"I-know-where-we-are-now" I panted
"Where?" he breathed
"Earth. But judging by everything around us, the non-magic part"
A few people walked by and dropped an odd form of money at our feet. A man came out of the building we were leaning against. He had a hard look about him but spoke gently.
"You from outta town?" He asked smiling at us. The man spoke English so Dmitri and I switched to it
"You could say that" I said
"I was watchin' you from inside. Don't you know to look before you cross the street? You nearly got hit by that car."
"Car?" Dmitri asked
"What, you never seen a car before?"
"We are from really far out of town," I said
"Well, you might wanna find a place to stay. Where are your parents?"
"Um, they're, um, we got, um" Dmitri tried to think of something
"Why don't I take you to the hotel around the corner. You can stay there for the night. You need money?"
"We've got rupees," I said
"Rupees? Where you two from cus' I never heard o' rupees before?" the man said
"Hyrule" Dmitri answered
"These are rupees" I said pulling out a handful of the colored jewels we used as money in Hyrule.
The old man stared at the rupees in my hand. He put on his glasses and stared even closer.
"May I?" he asked
I handed him a green rupee since it was of the lowest value
"Do you realize what this is?" he stammered
"A green rupee" I said flatly
"This is an emerald. It's worth at least 300 pounds. Our money. You've got almost 2,500 pounds in your hand" he said
"This isn't even all our money," I said
"I won this pawn shop. I'll give you money for these and you can use the money to get a room at the hotel"
"S-sure"
We went inside the man's shop and traded. There were weird looking things all over the shelves. After we got the money, the old man took us to another huge building with windows all over it. Men and women alike were dressed in odd uniforms pushing carts of luggage. The old man left us at the door
"Thank you, um" I didn't know the man's name
"Jack" he said, "Name's Jack. Now you two take are. London can be a tough town"
"Thanks, mate" Dmitri said
Jack walked off and Dmitri and I walked inside
"I'm guessing English is the predominant language so don't speak Elvish," I said
"Okay"
I walked to a counter where it said 'Check In' above it. I was fairly short so I had to stand on my tiptoes in order to see over. There was a tall blonde woman wearing a red uniform like the men. She had a pensive look on her face no less because of my appearance but she greeted me nonetheless.
"Hello, how can I help you? Are you looking for your parents?"
"Um, no" I was just aware that she had an odd accent, "We need a place to stay"
"All right" the woman seemed to be holding back laughter. "Would you like a one or two bedroom?"
I looked at Dmitri then said, "Two" I pulled out my money.
The woman looked shocked
"Would you like a suite instead?" she asked
"Suite?" I asked
"The suites are our nicer rooms. Would you like to see it before you make a decision?"
Dmitri stepped up, "Yes"
The woman summoned a man over and told him to take us up to one of the free suites. He led us in front of two large metal doors. People were coming in and out of similar doors on either side. The man pushed a button and the doors opened. We stepped inside and the doors slid shut behind us. He pushed another button on the wall with the number 15 on it. Suddenly we began moving.
"What's happening?" I said grabbing Dmitri
"Love, calm down" he said noticing the look on the man's face
The doors opened but it led to a different place then where we had originally come in. There was a long hall with white doors with gold numbers on them. We followed the man down the hall to a room at the end with double doors. He pulled out a ring of keys from his pocket and opened the doors.
I gasped. It looked like the castle, or how I pictured it should be. There was beautiful furniture facing a black box. There was no real kitchen but there was a counter with glasses and a small box with an assortment of bagged foods. He led us to the bedroom where two gigantic beds lie. One had a canopy above it. The bathroom was gorgeous. Or to me anyway. Everything was marble and glass. I had never seen such fancy things in all my life.
"We'll take it" Dmitri and I said at once
"I'll tell them downstairs then"
We went back to the doors. However the man wouldn't leave. He stood in the doorway and held his hand out
"Thanks, mate" Dmitri said shaking his hand
"Right. Well, if you need anything just dial '0' on the telephone"
"Telephone?" Dmitri asked
"Yes, the thing on the table next to the television." He said
"Television?" I asked
"The big black thing. To turn it on, use the remote on top."
The man left rather quickly than was necessary. Dmitri and I marveled for a while at out luck. I'd never seen such a magnificent place before. I walked out onto the balcony and gasped again. We were near the top of the building. Dmitri came to see and he was afraid to stop outside. I backed inside and closed the door and curtain.
"Can you believe it?" he said
"For non-magic folk, they've got some neat stuff" I said trying to figure out how the 'television' worked. I pressed a red button on the remote and a picture appeared. It was moving and it scared me so much I fell backwards.
"Amazing" I said. I tapped the screen but it was glass. I accidentally sped on the remote and the picture changed. Dmitri came into the room and was so surprised he dropped the pile of magazines he was holding
"What the --"
"What do you got?" I asked
"Magazines and books about the hotel. You read better English than I do so I thought you might want to take a look" He handed me the stack and I started reading them.
"Hey, they have a swimming pool. Oh, and 'room service'"
"What's that?"
"Pretty much, if we need something, we call down with the telephone and they bring it to us"
"Well call down and get us some food" he said, "I'm starving"
"Alright. Hand me the telephone. The picture shows the woman holding that part to her head"
I learned quickly how everything worked because we made the maid stay and show us how to use everything. I also found out why everyone was giving us odd looks. Apparently having pointed ears wasn't very common and because, according to her, we were dressed as if we lived in medieval times.
"Okay, so can we watch.movies?" I asked
"Yes' she laughed, "There's a list of movies you can watch in the magazine on page 32"
Dmitri was stuffing his face with food while I bombarded the maid, Danielle, with questions
"So where are your parents?" she asked
"We're not here with our parents," I said
"They let you come to London by yourselves?"
"Not exactly, Dmitri's parents live in Kakariko Village and my parents are. um.. not here anymore." I said putting on a fake smile
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. So, um, where are you from?"
"Ko-eye-ee" Dmitri said with his mouth full of food
"Huh?'
"Kokiri" I said clearly
"Where is that?"
"Hy-ool" Dmitri tried again
"Dmitri, swallow before you speak. We're from Hyrule. It's really far away"
"So, does everyone there have, um, ears like yours?" she asked
"Not everyone. Only the elves" I said casually
"Elves" she said surprised, "You two are elves?"
"Oh, I forgot about non-magic people. Sorry"
"Okay, well I better get back to work. Now, if you want to watch a movie, look in the magazine and there should be a number next to the title. Put that number in the remote and press 'enter.' Call down if you need anything else"
"Thanks" I said before she left. "Can you believe this? I feel like a princess" I switched back to Elvish and Dmitri as well.
"Well, you sure don't look like one" he said playing with the television again.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I said angrily
"It means your clothes are dirty. Your hair is grimy and if you don't take a bath now, I'm going to"
"Hmph." I said grabbing my bag and going into the bathroom. I took a long hot bath and made sure three wasn't a speck of dirt on me. I drained the tub and wrapped a towel around me. I threw my clothes in the basket where the maid picks it up and gets them cleaned
I walked out of the bathroom to get my clothes and was greeted by Dmitri whistling at me
"Shut up" I said
I grabbed my clothes and went behind the dressing screen to change. I could hear Dmitri taking a shower so I walked into the living room and waited reading a magazine. I looked at the list of movies and chose one called, 'The Fifth Element'
Ten minutes later, Dmitri walked out of the shower and sat down next to me wearing a robe. I looked and him and couldn't remove the look of shock before he saw me. His hair was bright royal blue now.
"What possessed you to --" But I couldn't get the words out before I burst into laughter
"Fine" he said waving his hand and changing it partially back.
"Oh, c'mere. I waved my hand over his hair and changed it back to the dark black it was originally.
"Saira, I've never know anyone with such talent for magic. You take to everything so quick" he started, "Very few Hylian elves can change appearances so easily at the age of 10"
"Thank you. Oh, movie's starting"
That night was one of the best we'd had in a long time. Even though I was enjoying myself, I still kept thinking I'd never find Link now that we were stuck in Earth with no way back.
"YEAH!!!" Dmitri yelled
I hugged Dmitri and we jumped up and down happy as ever that we'd got away. We stopped and I pulled him in and kissed him before I backed away and started cheering again. Dmitri stood stunned while I danced around him.
I sat down then lie down. Dmitri lied down next to me. I was overwhelmed with happiness about escaping Ganondorf but then again, now he would be coming after me. I also was curious as to why he needed me so much. Link was the hero of time. I just had visions.
"So, where to now?" Dmitri asked, "I mean, how long have we been traveling together?"
"Um, lets see. We didn't stay but a few days at Lon Lon. About a 3 months at Hylia and too many months in a desert. I'm dying for a good swim that doesn't transport me across Hyrule"
I began to get dizzy and my vision blurred. I closed my eyes but when I opened them, I wasn't lying next to Dmitri anymore. I was in a beautiful place. The walls shone blue and looked like water falling down but there was no sound to be heard. I stood on a platform like the one I'd seen in front of the Forest Temple and at Lake Hylia. However, there was no symbol within the Triforce. The platform was on high ground for if you looked off the edge it seemed never ending. Around the platform I stood on were six other ones at each point of the hexagon one I was on. Each was a different color and had a unique symbol different from the others.
Suddenly I was forced back to reality. Dmitri was still talking as if nothing had happened.
"Sairalinde"
I still had my eyes closed so I assumed it was Dmitri who called my name
"Dmitri, you know I hate it when you call me that"
"It wasn't --"
"Alatariel"
That did it. I hated being called by my most formal name. 'Alatariel' was my true Elvish name that I allowed no one to call me and besides, no one was supposed to know it. However I knew Dmitri wouldn't dare call me by it so I knew it wasn't him this time. I opened my eyes and tilted my head backward so I was staring at Zelda, aka Sheik, standing upside down, or from my point of view at least.
"Oh, thank the gods you're safe" she said. Obviously she had been testing it was really me.
"Safe? Yeah, Ganondorf had no reason to harm me until I pissed him off." I said
"If you had been lost --"
"They had no reason to kill her" Dmitri interrupted, "If they wanted Link, she needed to be alive"
"Ganondorf doesn't know much about your destiny, which is good for now"
"My destiny?" I said in surprise
"I need both of you to go stay at Zora's Domain. King Zora will keep an eye on you"
"Keep an eye on me?" I protested, "Did you not just see how we managed to get away from the great Ganondork himself?"
"I saw you, but you got lucky. The Great Faery of Magic did not have to help you" Zelda said
"But --" I rose to my feet
"No!" Zelda said firmly, but I wanted my say. Princess or not.
"My brother is missing. For nearly 3 years I have waited patiently. It was agonizing and I will not be made to wait again. I was a prisoner for nearly 6 months. 6 MONTHS! By now I could have found him"
"How old are you?" Zelda said abruptly
"What?"
"How old are you?"
"Nearly 11"
"I am naught 4 years older but I have been searching for Link ever since that fateful day. You remember it well, don't you, Saira? You saw it"
"And the fact that I saw it makes me even more wanting to find him" I said angrily.
"I will not force you to go but I will ask that you do" Zelda said calmly, "I have my reasons but you are too young to know"
Zelda threw something on the ground blinding Dmitri and me with light forcing me to shield my eyes. When it faded, Zelda was nowhere to be seen.
"Just because she used to be royalty doesn't mean she can boss me around," I said sitting back down
"I still say she's hiding something from you" Dmitri said staring at the spot where Zelda had been standing
"I know she is. We'll camp her tonight and leave for Zora's Domain in the morning" I said pulling out my sleeping bag.
"Love, are you alright?"
"I'm fine," I said flatly
"Don't lie to me," Dmitri said, "I've known you too long"
"It's just." I paused for a minutes before continuing extremely fast "It's just that everyone thinks I'm too young to know anything. And they'll keep saying it until they say I should have known when I'm this age. And they never tell you the full story. They always leave something out that is important but they don't want to tell you because they're afraid you cant handle it"
I continued to ramble until Dmitri covered my mouth
"I've never known you to give up on anything. You poured over books for weeks trying to learn about Link's destiny. Just do it again and --" Dmitri stopped. There was a look of shock and curiosity on his face. He removed his hand and turned me around.
It was amazing. The world in front of us looked as if it was coming together. I closed my eyes and rubbed them making sure I wasn't having another vision, but I wasn't. Everything continued to swirl together until and opening appeared.
"What is it?" Dmitri asked mischievously
"Saria said portals appear that take you to the other worlds"
"Other worlds? You mean away from Hyrule?" That lit a fire in Dmitri's head as he walked towards it
"Dmitri dont. You don't know where it goes"
"That's what makes it fun" he said
Dmitri touched it and he was sucked in
"DMITRI!" I screamed. I grabbed my bad and ran into it just as it began to fade. I felt like I was going down wet slide really fast. Light was all around me. I finally landed hard on the ground shooting pain through my body.
I stood up rubbing my back and butt as I looked around. Dmitri was staggering towards me.
"What a rush"
But I wasn't listening. We were in a alley behind an enormous building that was at least 100 feet tall.
"Where are we?" I asked quietly
"How should I know.. whoa. Love, look!" Dmitri said as he peered around the corner of the building, wide-eyed.
I walked over to where he was standing and gasped. The buildings were nothing of that in Hyrule. They seemed to span to the heavens. Odd round things on sticks lit cement roads. People walked the streets in strange clothing.
Dmitri and I started crossing the street when an enormous 'thing' made an awful sound and swerved around us. I jumped on Dmitri and he carried me over to the edge. We rested up again another building. Dmitri sat down and held me in his lap.
"I-know-where-we-are-now" I panted
"Where?" he breathed
"Earth. But judging by everything around us, the non-magic part"
A few people walked by and dropped an odd form of money at our feet. A man came out of the building we were leaning against. He had a hard look about him but spoke gently.
"You from outta town?" He asked smiling at us. The man spoke English so Dmitri and I switched to it
"You could say that" I said
"I was watchin' you from inside. Don't you know to look before you cross the street? You nearly got hit by that car."
"Car?" Dmitri asked
"What, you never seen a car before?"
"We are from really far out of town," I said
"Well, you might wanna find a place to stay. Where are your parents?"
"Um, they're, um, we got, um" Dmitri tried to think of something
"Why don't I take you to the hotel around the corner. You can stay there for the night. You need money?"
"We've got rupees," I said
"Rupees? Where you two from cus' I never heard o' rupees before?" the man said
"Hyrule" Dmitri answered
"These are rupees" I said pulling out a handful of the colored jewels we used as money in Hyrule.
The old man stared at the rupees in my hand. He put on his glasses and stared even closer.
"May I?" he asked
I handed him a green rupee since it was of the lowest value
"Do you realize what this is?" he stammered
"A green rupee" I said flatly
"This is an emerald. It's worth at least 300 pounds. Our money. You've got almost 2,500 pounds in your hand" he said
"This isn't even all our money," I said
"I won this pawn shop. I'll give you money for these and you can use the money to get a room at the hotel"
"S-sure"
We went inside the man's shop and traded. There were weird looking things all over the shelves. After we got the money, the old man took us to another huge building with windows all over it. Men and women alike were dressed in odd uniforms pushing carts of luggage. The old man left us at the door
"Thank you, um" I didn't know the man's name
"Jack" he said, "Name's Jack. Now you two take are. London can be a tough town"
"Thanks, mate" Dmitri said
Jack walked off and Dmitri and I walked inside
"I'm guessing English is the predominant language so don't speak Elvish," I said
"Okay"
I walked to a counter where it said 'Check In' above it. I was fairly short so I had to stand on my tiptoes in order to see over. There was a tall blonde woman wearing a red uniform like the men. She had a pensive look on her face no less because of my appearance but she greeted me nonetheless.
"Hello, how can I help you? Are you looking for your parents?"
"Um, no" I was just aware that she had an odd accent, "We need a place to stay"
"All right" the woman seemed to be holding back laughter. "Would you like a one or two bedroom?"
I looked at Dmitri then said, "Two" I pulled out my money.
The woman looked shocked
"Would you like a suite instead?" she asked
"Suite?" I asked
"The suites are our nicer rooms. Would you like to see it before you make a decision?"
Dmitri stepped up, "Yes"
The woman summoned a man over and told him to take us up to one of the free suites. He led us in front of two large metal doors. People were coming in and out of similar doors on either side. The man pushed a button and the doors opened. We stepped inside and the doors slid shut behind us. He pushed another button on the wall with the number 15 on it. Suddenly we began moving.
"What's happening?" I said grabbing Dmitri
"Love, calm down" he said noticing the look on the man's face
The doors opened but it led to a different place then where we had originally come in. There was a long hall with white doors with gold numbers on them. We followed the man down the hall to a room at the end with double doors. He pulled out a ring of keys from his pocket and opened the doors.
I gasped. It looked like the castle, or how I pictured it should be. There was beautiful furniture facing a black box. There was no real kitchen but there was a counter with glasses and a small box with an assortment of bagged foods. He led us to the bedroom where two gigantic beds lie. One had a canopy above it. The bathroom was gorgeous. Or to me anyway. Everything was marble and glass. I had never seen such fancy things in all my life.
"We'll take it" Dmitri and I said at once
"I'll tell them downstairs then"
We went back to the doors. However the man wouldn't leave. He stood in the doorway and held his hand out
"Thanks, mate" Dmitri said shaking his hand
"Right. Well, if you need anything just dial '0' on the telephone"
"Telephone?" Dmitri asked
"Yes, the thing on the table next to the television." He said
"Television?" I asked
"The big black thing. To turn it on, use the remote on top."
The man left rather quickly than was necessary. Dmitri and I marveled for a while at out luck. I'd never seen such a magnificent place before. I walked out onto the balcony and gasped again. We were near the top of the building. Dmitri came to see and he was afraid to stop outside. I backed inside and closed the door and curtain.
"Can you believe it?" he said
"For non-magic folk, they've got some neat stuff" I said trying to figure out how the 'television' worked. I pressed a red button on the remote and a picture appeared. It was moving and it scared me so much I fell backwards.
"Amazing" I said. I tapped the screen but it was glass. I accidentally sped on the remote and the picture changed. Dmitri came into the room and was so surprised he dropped the pile of magazines he was holding
"What the --"
"What do you got?" I asked
"Magazines and books about the hotel. You read better English than I do so I thought you might want to take a look" He handed me the stack and I started reading them.
"Hey, they have a swimming pool. Oh, and 'room service'"
"What's that?"
"Pretty much, if we need something, we call down with the telephone and they bring it to us"
"Well call down and get us some food" he said, "I'm starving"
"Alright. Hand me the telephone. The picture shows the woman holding that part to her head"
I learned quickly how everything worked because we made the maid stay and show us how to use everything. I also found out why everyone was giving us odd looks. Apparently having pointed ears wasn't very common and because, according to her, we were dressed as if we lived in medieval times.
"Okay, so can we watch.movies?" I asked
"Yes' she laughed, "There's a list of movies you can watch in the magazine on page 32"
Dmitri was stuffing his face with food while I bombarded the maid, Danielle, with questions
"So where are your parents?" she asked
"We're not here with our parents," I said
"They let you come to London by yourselves?"
"Not exactly, Dmitri's parents live in Kakariko Village and my parents are. um.. not here anymore." I said putting on a fake smile
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. So, um, where are you from?"
"Ko-eye-ee" Dmitri said with his mouth full of food
"Huh?'
"Kokiri" I said clearly
"Where is that?"
"Hy-ool" Dmitri tried again
"Dmitri, swallow before you speak. We're from Hyrule. It's really far away"
"So, does everyone there have, um, ears like yours?" she asked
"Not everyone. Only the elves" I said casually
"Elves" she said surprised, "You two are elves?"
"Oh, I forgot about non-magic people. Sorry"
"Okay, well I better get back to work. Now, if you want to watch a movie, look in the magazine and there should be a number next to the title. Put that number in the remote and press 'enter.' Call down if you need anything else"
"Thanks" I said before she left. "Can you believe this? I feel like a princess" I switched back to Elvish and Dmitri as well.
"Well, you sure don't look like one" he said playing with the television again.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I said angrily
"It means your clothes are dirty. Your hair is grimy and if you don't take a bath now, I'm going to"
"Hmph." I said grabbing my bag and going into the bathroom. I took a long hot bath and made sure three wasn't a speck of dirt on me. I drained the tub and wrapped a towel around me. I threw my clothes in the basket where the maid picks it up and gets them cleaned
I walked out of the bathroom to get my clothes and was greeted by Dmitri whistling at me
"Shut up" I said
I grabbed my clothes and went behind the dressing screen to change. I could hear Dmitri taking a shower so I walked into the living room and waited reading a magazine. I looked at the list of movies and chose one called, 'The Fifth Element'
Ten minutes later, Dmitri walked out of the shower and sat down next to me wearing a robe. I looked and him and couldn't remove the look of shock before he saw me. His hair was bright royal blue now.
"What possessed you to --" But I couldn't get the words out before I burst into laughter
"Fine" he said waving his hand and changing it partially back.
"Oh, c'mere. I waved my hand over his hair and changed it back to the dark black it was originally.
"Saira, I've never know anyone with such talent for magic. You take to everything so quick" he started, "Very few Hylian elves can change appearances so easily at the age of 10"
"Thank you. Oh, movie's starting"
That night was one of the best we'd had in a long time. Even though I was enjoying myself, I still kept thinking I'd never find Link now that we were stuck in Earth with no way back.