Her

I lay there as I hear someone open the door. I try my best not to move as I hear them move around the room. After a couple minutes they finally try to wake me up, shaking the bed a little and saying "princess." I begin to open my eyes and sit up, acting like I just woke up now. I see a guard nervously watching me from the far corner of the room. "What do you need?" I politely ask.

He seems shocked at how polite I sounded, especially considering what happened before this. He begins to tell me that the King wanted someone to check up on me, to see if I was still awake. I tell him that I'm fine and that the King just wanted to see if I was dead. He looks at me nervously before he goes and shuts the door. I look at him with curiosity, not knowing why he had to shut the door.

He begins to start talking again, "Your highness, I know these past 3 months have been like hell for you. They've been like hell for the guards too. We live in fear now. Most guards only act like they do because of it. Of course, they're are a couple who truly enjoy what they do now, but I don't like it and I try to do the opposite when I can. I just want to let you know, even if you think that your alone in this world, it might not mean much...but I'm still behind you and always will be."

I looked at him with an expression of shock, not knowing how to react. I see him start to look down, probably thinking that I'm going to smack and yell at him for one he said. He starts to get up to leave, but I stop him in his tracks when I start to say, "It means a lot to me that you said that, and don't think that it was wrong for you to say. It means so much to know that at least one person isn't against me in this world."

He just looks at me for a second before smiling at my response. He tells me that the King expects me in the throne room in a couple minutes, and not to fell alone when I'm there because he'll be on watch with the other guards in there. I smile at him as he leaves, feeling like things are starting to look up for me.

I tidy myself up a little before going, touching up my makeup and putting on a new dress. I walk out of my room with confidence, knowing that I at least have one friend with me in the castle. I walk down the long corridor, each guard eyeing me like a hawk, making sure I don't do anything the King doesn't like. I open the doors to the throne room to see him sitting down like usual, being the useless person he is.

I see the guard in my room from earlier standing off to the side, standing as straight as he can as he looks forward. I give him a quick smile so that nobody catches on. He gives me a very small smirk to acknowledge me, assuring me that he has my back. I walk until I meet my husband, asking him why he has called for my presence. "Why else would I call for you. I wanted to make sure you were okay." He said, almost looking like he wanted to kill himself for saying what he said. "Your such a liar." I tell him, not believing a single word that comes out of his mouth.

"Whatever," he says, "That would have been the only thing if something else did not happen. I look at him nervously before asking, "what do you mean?" "You know what I mean" He angrily says at me. I act as dumb as I can, hoping that he didn't find out about my little encounter with Link this morning. I continue to ask him what he's talking about until he brings up something I wasn't expecting. "A guard heard you talking to someone not too long ago. Is this true?." I'm completely lost for words before I manage to get out "impossible, I was asleep. How could I talk to someone if I was sleeping?"

"I'm not dumb Zelda." He says with a angry look and tone in his voice. This is it. He found out about Link and I. I'm done for. He stands up and nods at the guards to his left. They grab hold of the guard in my room earlier and bring him beside me. They start to beat him to the point of him bleeding out of his nose and mouth. I yell for them to stop but they don't listen. They continue to hit him until they're king steps forward, telling them to stop. They go back to they're posts and begin to watch for what happens next.

My husband begins to ask me if I know him, to which I deny multiple times. He screams for me not to lie, and draws his sword. I wasn't expecting for this to happen. I thought that is was safe to have an actual conversation with someone. He begins to move towards the injured guard, sword in his right hand. He asks me one more time, "Do you know this man?" I look at my friend in the eyes to see the fear he has in his eyes. He gives me a slight nod, telling me to say the truth.

I cant bring myself to say it, knowing that he will die if I do. "No." I say. I see my husband look at me with disbelief, starting to raise his sword to kill him. I cry and beg for him not to do it, and surprisingly, he stops at the last second and says that he'll let him live. He starts to turn around and I breath a sigh of relief, but then all the sudden I see him turn, slashing him across the throat. I scream as I see it happen, standing up and hitting him in the chest for what he's done.

It has little affect on him as he restrains me and gets the guards to get me back to my room. I try not to watch as I pass by my only friend, dying on the floor. The guards throw me in my room and lock me in there. I begin to cry and yell in pain for him. He died just because he was friendly to me...he died because of me.