Chapter 15
Sora Makes Peace
Lya – IDIOT! (pacing in circles around the room in front of Link after they go back to Farore's Oasis from Ganondorf's castle) STUPID! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU'VE DONE?
Link – (leaning against the wall in a corner) What's so bad about it? Maybe if we show him a little respect, he'll back down off the whole take over the world thing.
Lya - THIS IS GANONDORF'S SON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE! YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO THAT ANYONE RELATED TO GANONDORF IS PURE EVIL! (Link looks like he's been shot) Oh, no, Link, I didn't mean it like tha-
Link runs out of the room. A few moments later Sora walks in.
Sora – Hey Lya. What's with Link?
Lya – That's a long story. If you want to hear it, you need to have him tell it to you.
Sora – Alright.
Link is in his room, sprawled face down on his bed. Sora is standing in the doorway trying to decide if he should come later.
Link – (muffled because he has his face in his pillow) You might as well come in. You've been standing there for three minutes. (sits up and looks at Sora, who has sat down uncertainly on a chair in front of a table in the middle of the room) She sent you up here, didn't she?
Sora – No… she said if I wanted to know what's going on, I had to ask you.
Link – (snorting) Of course. She's "too busy" to tell you the story.
Sora – No, that's not what she said. She just said it's a long story, and then she said that I needed to have you tell it to me.
Link – Fine. (Link tells Sora the story that his grandmother had told him earlier, with details from Dakaraso's version) So that's the story of why everything's gone south.
Sora – wow. I never would have expected that.
Link – Yeah, well, none of us did.
Sora – Link, what Lya said, you know she wasn't talking about you, or your sister for that matter.
Link – Yeah, I know.
Sora – Then why don't you go and talk to her?
Link – (sighs) I'm just not sure what to say to her anymore.
Sora – (looks Link dead in the eye) I'm sure you can think of something.
Link – (groans) The only thing I can think of is this song that she really likes…
Sora – So sing it for her!
Link – (glares at Sora) That's easy for you to say.
Sora – Well?
Link – Fine.
That night:
Lya is sitting out on her balcony, looking up at the stars. She jumps as music starts coming from Link's room, and he starts singing.
Link – (singing Nickelback's "Gotta Be Somebody") …So I'll be holding my breath, could this be the end? Is this the moment when I find the one that I'll spend forever with? …
Lya – (after Link finishes singing the song; walks over to the edge of her balcony and swings over the edge onto Link's) You do know how to make a girl's heart soar, don't you?
Link – (hugging her close) Well, I had a bit of help with the idea (gestures at the table set with dinner and flowers)
Lya – (laughs) Sora noticed I wasn't at dinner. This was sweet of the two of you.
Link – (kisses her on the cheek) Well we've all had a long day, so we figured it'd be nice to relax for a little while.
A little while after they've sat down:
Link – (looking slightly uncomfortable) So… truce?
Lya – (looking up at him) Of course.
Link – (smiling) Good.
They stay up all night long talking. Sora walks away from the doorway with a smug look on his face.