Link mumbled and moaned.
"Oh, Link, you're okay!" he heard a feminine voice shout. He felt fair skin and smooth hair on his bare chest. I This must be Zelda /I he thought.
"Hey, hon," Link mumbled, wrapping his arms around her. He lay there, slowly opening his eyes. His vision was very blurry.
"How come I can't see?" he mumbled.
"The dark energy in that blade made it so that your conditions would take longer to heal. Your unconsciousness hasn't fully worn off, so your vision is blurry and you'll have a severe headache for a long time. We have some painkillers you can take," Zelda explained.
"Okay, thanks honey," said Link. Zelda withdrew herself from him and took a look at him. She couldn't help but admire his strong chest and abs.
Link caught sight of this and smiled. "I would have thought you'd get used to that by now," he said. Zelda smiled again and said, "I'll be back later today. You get some rest."
Link nodded and fell asleep before his head hit the pillow.
Link awoke to the sound of moaning and wailing. He bolted upright, only to have his migraine stab him in the head. He clutched his head and slumped back to the pillow. He looked at the side table next to him. There was a glass of water and some strange looking tablets. I What are those things? /I he thought.
As if reading his mind, a voice said, "It's a new technology the doctors have recently discovered."
Link turned to the direction of the voice. There was an elderly nurse standing at the foot of his bed holding some bloody towels; Link didn't need to ask.
"They're painkillers; you just put them in your mouth and wash them down with the water. It's quite remarkable, and they work within minutes," she said.
She was a very old woman, but far from feeble. The pile of towels in her arms looked to have weighed at least forty pounds, with the added weight of the blood stained on it.
"Who are you?" Link asked. He made it a point to know who served him, but there were several servants he'd seen every day and had no clue who they were.
"My name is Scarlet. Now please, take those pills before I shove them down your throat," she said calmly but firmly.
Link hesitated before popping one in his mouth. Before he could wash it down, Scarlet said, "No, no, no, you're supposed to put them all in at once."
So Link placed the remaining four in his mouth and gulped them down. They tasted horrible, but he guessed that he'd be thankful for it later.
"Thank you," Link said as he wiped his mouth, a bitter taste in his mouth. Scarlet could see the distaste on his face and chuckled. "They taste quite bad, but you'll be thankful for it in about half an hour," she said.
Link nodded and almost instantly hit the pillow. His last thought was, I Are they sleeping pills or something! /I
The last thing he heard was, "I forgot to mention, they placed a special sleeping draft in them just for you."
Lance always had a thing for building. He never really got a chance often because his social status required him to remain at the castle most of the time. So when he saw men going down to the Market to rebuild what was destroyed, he got himself a hammer and a bag of nails and joined them, much to his mother's protest.
As he hammered down new pieces of wood to the roof of the Happy Mask Shop, he pondered on this man, Ganondorf. His father had told him stories of Ganondorf ever since he was three. He never thought he was a real person until he was about fifteen, when his father was sent on an urgent mission to Termina to investigate sightings of Ganondorf.
So he must have broken out of the Sacred Realm on that day, or at least close to it. But how was it possible? His Triforce of Power was taken from him and all six Sages sealed the Realm on their lives. Did that mean… that he killed them?
That would explain why Saria was dead. But then how could they have seen Ganondorf two years ago when a Sage had just recently died?
This was a definite mystery and Lance wanted badly to get to the bottom of it. Of course, his father would never allow it, even though he started gallivanting across Hyrule and Termina at age ten. He was Lance's age when he first defeated Ganondorf!
And at that, he had never understood the story of how he defeated Ganondorf, then traveled back to his original time and went to Termina. Wouldn't Ganondorf have come back anyway since this happened in the future, not the past? If so, then he'd have to destroy Ganondorf all over again in seven years, right?
This was odd to think about indeed.
Suddenly Lance's train of thought crashed when he saw the most beautiful girl he'd seen in his entire life. She had long, red hair and was dressed in a rather worn dress; complete with manure covered boots and a cute little smudge of dirt on her face.
This wouldn't attract most men, but Lance wasn't most men. He could tell she was a farm girl (who couldn't?) and knew that she knew work well. He admired that in a girl.
He kept hammering while staring at her across the plaza. His hammer just kept pounding on the wood until he heard a loud SNAP! and the board broke in half. Only a few people noticed, and those chuckled. Luckily the attractive girl didn't.
Lance cursed and reached for another board. Not learning from his mistake, he kept staring at her, and with the first hit on the board, the hammer made contact with his thumb.
"OW!" he shouted. This time the entire plaza noticed, including the girl. He didn't much care about everyone else, but was embarrassed to see her giggle as he bit his thumb.
She had a really cute laugh. Lance's heart melted at the sound of it. He needed to go and talk to her… but she had already left with her basket of fruit.
Lance cursed again. Feeling a little bit down, he continued hammering.