AUTHOR'S NOTE: Here's another – this time in Malon's pov
Yeah, I know, it's dramatic and doesn't make much sense. Hopefully in the next chapter it will start to come together.
run
I could say I was disappointed by his silence, but I was not. It was expected, I suppose. I don't know what he's been through, and I probably will never, but theres a sense of knowing that I already posses within me. I know all of these years have not been easy for him, just as the years haven't been easy for me. My relief of seeing Link has blinded me of anything else.
He took my hands in his. I felt the callouses, the shallow rips in his skin of his fingers, the worn leather encasing his palms. I felt the battles hes fought.
I was suddenly aware of my seclusion from the world. Sadness once more gripped me as I thought of how different my life was from his. I can plainly see from the scars on his hands that he has traveled far across the fields of Hyrule, when I, a sheltered farm girl, has left my home few enough times to count on my fingers. Deep down in my heart I have always known that nothing could come of this. I never truly thought he would come, the lies I told myself were only to keep me from breaking. I needed something to look forward to and now that that time was upon me, I felt lost.
"promise you'll never leave me." My voice was weak and not confident. I knew that there would be no promises between us; I was only hurting myself.
He pulled me close to his body. I could feel his hair against my forehead, his thumb on my chin, brushing my bottom lip. His voice was a tortured whisper.
"My promise is worthless."
I was surprised at how quickly tears filled my eyes; they hid my features from the disappointment that rocked through me. Once again I let myself get my hopes up, only to be shot down; I have become a masochist.
"I'm sorry . . . Please . . . please don't cry" he brushed my cheek, "You're breaking my heart."
My grasp tightened on his arm; the irony in that sentence was almost unbearable. If only he knew the suffering I endured, if only her knew how I've waited. If only I had been able to see through my selfishness and realize that he had felt the same emotions I had.
I wasn't angry at Link, I was angry at whatever force was pulling him away from me. But frustration is an ugly beast that does not discriminate, it just rips at whomever is the closest.
"Why did you come!" I poured my being into those four words. Everything that surged through my body released itself into that small sentence.
Then I did the only thing I could think of; I ran. I didn't know why I did what I did. I had no reason to run or to even be angry, but I could feel the wind through my hair and the wet air in my lungs. I didn't want to think of how I just ruined my chances of happiness; or maybe, I had just saved myself from the agony that was sure to come.
Where I was going, I didn't know. All I could feel was the grates of the fence on either side of my body as I slipped between them. I traveled away from the house and towards the tall silo that stood as a beacon in the mist. Rain began to fall from the sky; even the sky cried in disappointment for my actions.
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