Hello all, just
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always have trouble writing third person, as I have a habit of
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As Anaya walked into the castle, she was glad that she had worn her scarf, because her jaw had dropped at the sheer elegance of it all. Link had given a small chuckle at first, but then lightly grabbed her wrist, and urged her to continue into the main room to meet Zelda.
When they made it to the large ballroom, it was not hard to spot the queen at all. Her long blond hair had been put up in an elegant design, her crown almost blending into it. She had worn the most beautiful pink and white robes that night, all light colors, but they had definitely made a statement. Anaya had gasped when she had first spotted her. Sure, Anaya was not ugly, but she had found herself comparing nonetheless. She looked over to link to see his reaction, but found quite a different one. He looked as if he was ready to take her away and marry her! She gave a giggle, and when Link looked over, he gave a blush, he had realized that she was giggling at him.
After his blush had gone, he gave a grin and pulled her over to Zelda. She could hear her heart beating. What if the queen thought that she had been rude by covering her face? What if-
"Link! You look wonderful, much better than when you came home from your adventure today. Who is it that you brought with you?" Zelda had cut off her doubting thoughts with a soft voice, which almost demanded attention.
"Zelda, don't joke! You know I always look good!" He gave a laugh and she had rolled her eyes in a playful matter. "And this is Anaya, remember, the girl that I was telling you about before I left? I hope that it's okay that I brought her…" Anaya had been watching Zelda's face to gauge her reaction. Thankfully, it had been a good one, and Zelda's eyes opened with realization.
"This is her? Oh, so nice to meet you! I'm Zelda, Link has told me all about you two and your adventures, it's so nice to finally meet you." She reached out and gave me a small hug and a comforting smile. "And Link, of course it's okay that you brought her, you know that I had been wanting to meet her for a while now." Anaya gave her a smile, Zelda seemed like a genuinely nice person, and hopefully the two could be friends in the future.
Anaya started to notice the people around them had begun to stare at her, but she simply brushed it off and returned to the conversation that Zelda and Link had been having.
"Really Link, I wish you would be a bit more careful about who you stay with hen you're out on these adventures. We don't know enough about this new area yet; you don't even know what the tribe who lives there is called! Don't give me that look! SO what if I'm being cautious, you should be too! They could have killed you in your sle-Oh! Anaya, please help me put some sense into him!" Zelda sure could talk up a storm, now that she thought about it.
"Uhm…Well mayb-" She didn't get a chance to finish.
"Anaya don't even try it! You know better than anybody, I'm fully capable of taking care of myself when I leave Hyrule!" Link tried to reason with Zelda.
"We know Link, but we just want to make sure that you'll be alright and in one piece when you come back! You really can't blame us." Zelda gave a sigh, Anaya knew what she had meant, one time Link had left for a whole month, and he hadn't even thought to tell her that. She had been worried out of her mind, thinking that he had died.
"Link you just have to realize that even if you are in Hyrule, out of Hyrule, or anywhere! People still worry about you back home, we just want to make sure that you're safe, because if you were gone, who would we have with an ego the size of Hyrule? It simply wouldn't be the same without you and your big mouth!" Zelda laughed at Anaya's statement, but they all knew it was true, things really wouldn't be the same around Hyrule if Link were to not be there. Zelda's laughter eventually ended and she gave her skirt a slight pat.
"Well you two, dinner will be in about an hour, I should probably go mingle with the other guests so that they don't begin to think that I'm neglecting them! I'll see you guys in a while." She had walked away with complete elegance and grace.
"See Anaya, talking to people really isn't that bad, is it?" She went to retort, but apparently Link had seen some old friend, Daroona? Daria? Something like that, and he had told her that he would be back soon. As she looked around, she could have sworn that she had seen a tuft of blond hair tucked into the shadows sneaking down an exiting hallway. She brushed it off and gave a slight sigh. She decided that she would try and find the bathroom, she needed to adjust her scarf, it was too silky of a material to stay put for too long. And maybe she would also see what that blond haired person had been doing.
The farther away from the ballroom she had gotten, the quieter the atmosphere had become, Anaya was happy for that at least. The ballroom had become a bit to loud for her liking, but considering the amount of people that had been packed in there, she supposed that it was only natural. She looked around as the noise lulled to a very quite roar, which was surprising because at that point she had been quite far away from the actual ballroom. Not to mention completely lost with no sign of a bathroom or the blond person. But she would worry about that later.
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After she had finally found a bathroom, she was so far into the castle that she couldn't even recognize what she had been seeing outside of the windows. The style of the hallways had dramatically changed a few times; she figured that she had been walking for at least forty-five minutes. When she rounded another corner, voices were heard, so Anaya stopped in her tracks and pressed herself onto the wall.
"My Queen, I know you are holding a party right now, but there is some urgent news that needs discussing." She wished that she could see who was talking, but she simply assumed it to be an army member for the time being.
"It can honestly not wait?" A pause. "Fine, continue, but hurry please, dinner is only fifteen minutes away!" The man had then cleared his voice.
"The new tribe that you had our men looking out for, there has been some discoveries. They call themselves the Igala people, they are said to be a war tribe, but almost nobody has heard anything about them. We found their name out by carefully eaves dropping, but the only other thing we got was them talking about war plans with--" A hand grasped her shoulder and pulled her out of hearing range. With a gasped she whirled around.
There stood a man with blonde hair—perhaps he had been the man sneaking off—a cowl covered his face, and a full blue body suit, a strange eye symbol on canvas covered his chest. The top of his head was wrapped in the same material as his chest cover and cowl, a neutral colored canvas type, she noticed, the same type as her normal cowl. She felt silly, as she stood there and aped, but she didn't know what else to do. Was he to throw her out because he had caught her eavesdropping? She hadn't meant to!
"Would you perhaps like me to escort you to dinner? It's coming in a few moments, you know." His voice had been clear, and semi deep. He had spoken slower than the average person, but it had just made him seem more majestic. His dark, crimson eyes stared into her deep brown ones, she didn't know how to respond, so she had simply nodded.
The walk to the dining room had been brisk and silent, but the two strangers could not help but feel a sense of longing when they had departed for their separate parties. With a quiet 'thank you' Anaya walked towards Link, with whom she would spend the rest of the night with, out of fear of getting lost again. She couldn't help but wonder though, if she would ever meet the strange man again.
