Third of Dewfall, in the 16th year of my reign.
I write the words I dare not say aloud.
I have just realized most painfully, the gravest error of my sovereignty. My first glance told me not to trust that sandy bastard. I should have trusted my first instincts. However, it's a bit late to change that now. Ganondorf had bitter honey in his words and told me just what I wanted to hear. From the moment I let his "protectors" walk right into my territory, nay before then even, I was walking straightway into his trap, as naive and ignorant as a young deer fresh from the thaw of winter. From the first time I greeted him as brother and friend, he was playing me. His helpful words and kind demeanor, the evenings spent musing over our drinks all a ruse. The alliance between our peoples only an attempt at leverage.
I've been king for long enough now. I know damned well, through and through, how this game is played. We all say one thing and mean another. Feigning camaraderie, we shake with one hand while concealing daggers behind our backs with the other. I suppose I let my petty feelings in the way. In my heart, I longed for a good and true friend. One whom I could trust and speak true with. I wished for a compatriot, someone, anyone, I could speak my mind around and be entrusted with the same in return. If such a thing exists, it must not exist in this world, not for men like me. I hope in the next.
One would read all that I just wrote and exclaim, "a friend, one for sharing burdens and feelings, that's a wife right there, and lucky you, you happen to have one!" Not so much, I'm afraid. Not for men of royalty. My wife and queen, that bitch of a shrew with all the brains of a deku stump! A political marriage if there ever was one. There never was any love between us. If only I'd had the guts I would have been rid of her long ago.
As for the traitorous devil, the sixth regiment is cutting off his supply line, and by noon tomorrow, he'll be trapped in the pincer grip of Hyrule's finest. Then he will suffer the wrath of a king betrayed.