Before the dawn of the next day, Sheik stood by the entrance to castle town. Outside the land was covered by a fine early autumn mist.
"Stop moving" ordered Sheik, frowning under his mask. The feel of Link's shadow moving in his own was unnerving, like needles prickling all over his skin, so that should he move, he would tear himself apart.
"Oh, you like it." Whispered the shadow in his ear, making Sheik grit his teeth.
"Get. Out. Now." He said, trying very hard to keep his hands to his sides and not start throwing knives at the shadows around his feet.
The shadow exited Sheik's own and floated next to him.
"Link always said that it tickled when I moved" he said, giving Sheik a smirk that made him feel something that wasn't a desire to strangle him. Sheik looked away.
"What was that song behind the map? Why did you come when the princess sang it?" he asked, and the shadow growled.
"That, is none of your business."
Sensing an opportunity to get the upper hand, Sheik looked at him.
"Did you compose it for Link?" he asked, and in less than a heartbeat, the shadow was a breath away, touching his troath with a long claw.
"He did it himself. How could I do something, without him doing it too?" and the shadow smiled at him, pressing the tip of the claw harder. He turned and caught a short knife thrown at him. "My, my, such manners from a lady." He said, as lady Veriath ran to them, followed closely by the other two soldiers.
"Sir, are you alright?" she asked Sheik, who felt a pang of something twisting in his gut. Because when he looked at her, he could only see the brave lady, cut in half by Ganondorf's monsters. The scream of the princess still ringed in his ears.
"Yes" he said, inching away from her. The shadow chuckled, looking down at them as if they weren't worthy enough to help in anything. Deep inside him, Sheik was ashamed that he thought the same thing.
"What are we going to do now?" asked Olen, while Kideth pulled the horses forward. The animals refused to get anywhere close to the shadow, who kept hissing at them like a snake.
"We must go to the Kokiri Forest. Must you travel in my shadow, since you can't ride the horses, shadow?" asked Sheik. Shadow looked at him with bored eyes.
"No. I'll see you on the other end of the kokiri forest, on the road to Jilveth"
"Is that where he went first? To Jilveth?"
"Yes"
"There is nothing there, it's but a small road village."
"I said that's where he went, I never said he arrived there. He planned to go spend the night there, but" he smirked "he never made it"
The form of the shadow faded with the first rays of the morning sun.
"We can trust him? I don't think the bastard's telling the truth. He's most likely some demon, who-"
"He tells the truth. And he is a shadow." Said Sheik, closing the conversation.
He didn't thought that the shadow would ever try to destroy Link. It needed him.
It was the need, and the desire to possess him that worried Sheik.