#(tho that might have to wait til after i post his remembering drabble and update his canon point... smth smth zelda gave him a space-)

[windsofcourage]

THE CORNERS OF HIS eyes tightened . a divot formed just above the bridge of his nose , & . link wished nothing more in that moment than that she might leave it be . moments like these , in the space between what lay scattered & . what stayed true , were FRAGILE ENOUGH AS IT WAS . maybe link didn't want to ruin it . or maybe he just didn't want to LET IT GO just yet .

HE WEDGED THE POINT of his canine tooth into the flesh beneath his lip . nostrils flared . somehow it felt worse to to spurn earnestness with reservation . still . that didn't make any part of the truth come easy .

❝  i believe you . ❞

LINK LET THE WEIGHT of those words settle on his own shoulders . picked at the end of his pant's leg . it was truth , after all . but the idea of saying it out loud — the ache in him stung . the unease in him twisted . there were some things that still didn't make sense . like malice - twisted monsters that murdered & . maimed . glimmer of light - scales woven into carefully measured fabric . the wish of a gentle heart / no matter how bad the wound . . . & . seething anger behind : YOU'RE THE HYLIAN THAT STOLE LADY MIPHA AWAY .

the divine beast is crying once again . / awash in a pool of tears .

HE BLINKED . IT ALL grew muddy . link felt sick again .

❝  . . . i just— . . . give me time . ❞

−−−  ꧁ this energy was different . softer . less foreboding . albeit a bit . . .

embarrassing . ( foreign ?? )

enough so , that zelda pinched her own lip to quell the way her own frankness caught her off guard . a candidness born of a the lingering question mark ( ? ) that hung over their heads : she'd never quite been able to tell what link thought of her , the person . even less so now . but she knew what she thought of him .

" as am i , incredibly lucky . "

so perhaps this all came a bit natural . and maybe it was okay to speak frankly .

" i would be . . . remissed to allow you to believe that you are alone . that is to say , we have been through a lot , you and i . " she speaks into her hand , keeping link in the corner of her sight as she continues to take strides , forging her way to her point .

. . . and while zelda hated to be the song bird of their woes , it was impossible to not bring them back around to the elephant in the room .

parsing the swell in her chest to the pain in its depths : zelda worried for him . not because he was weak , but because he was none the wiser . and maybe ignorance is bliss , so then if that was the case then it must be a curse to walk in truth's shadow , three paces behind .

" so , you can talk to me , you know . " because he probably doesn't know .