Zelda was enjoying a pleasant song by a passing fair choir when all hell broke loose. The explosion rocked the dais. At first she thought it was an accident. Then another building burst into flame. Zelda quickly gathered her daughters close to her. She looked at Link by her side. He was frozen. "Go," she tried to say to him with her eyes. It must have worked because he sprang into action, his scythe blazing before him. Zelda looked down at her girls.
"Leal, take them behind the dais. Kais, Mirla, you stay quiet and don't cry," Zelda instructed them. Leal nodded and squeeked, "Yes Mama" through trembling lips. Leal took her siblings by the hands and they all scrambled behind the dais. Zelda briefly reflected on the fact that she was indeed very pregnant, and if she could do the acrobatics required, should climb behind the dais herself. She laughed, and pulled a daggerout of the top of her dress. Link's paranoia had scared her as well, and as much as she'd given him flak for bringing a weapon to the town festival, she also thought it prudent to sneak one herself.
One by one she attacked the reptilian intruders, realizing that they had a defficiency of both external armor and scales right under their chins. She kicked at the piles of heads and bodies around her. They kept coming. The Hyrulian guards were overwhelmed. Even Link appeared to have difficulty staving off the sheer number of them.
Suddenly, a voice called behind her. A woman her age, with long red hair and wearing a plain farmer's dress, had Zelda's children in her hands and was calling to Zelda. In the din Zelda could not hear her. The reptilians, having tied Link, seemed to stop attacking for a moment. Apparently they had what they came for? -"What," Zelda yelled. -"I have a cart." -"What?" -"Out back, I have a cart waiting. Come quickly."
And with that the woman ran. Zelda did her best imitation of an over-fat duck as she tried to run after the woman who had her daughters. With the woman's helpful hand, Zelda struggled into the back of the cart. The red-haired woman jumped with a single fluid motion Zelda envied into the driving seat and with a "yah" her team of two ivory horses broke into a strong, albiet clumsy by virtue of the cart, gallop. Lying down in the cart, with a canvas thrown over them, Zelda felt herself breath for the first time in a while. In the aftershock, Mirla was bawling. Zelda gathered her girls around her, lying in the dark, and, not knowing how else to help them, whispered a lulliby.
As they left the burning town, the cart slowed to an easier pace across the still-peaceful green hills of Hyrule Field.
