[ Zelda is quiet for a long time, listening to Satan and simply allowing herself to be held. Her shaking has not stilled, but the way he tightens his hold on her makes her feel safe. Safe from a world that feels like its crumbling away right at her feet. Safe from a fate she thought she had accepted. Safe from hurting anyone else with the sacrifice she has to make.
As she listens to him, her eyes fill with tears and she begins to cry quietly against him. No heart wrenching sobs --the princess hasn't had the strength to cry that hard in weeks-- but muffled little whimpers and a few damp spots on his shirt where she buries her face against him. She wants to hug him again, but her arms are full with the book and she also wants to keep holding it to feel its warmth, so the best she can manage is to lean all of her weight against Satan.
At first, Zelda isn't sure if she really believes Satan when he insisted that he isn't angry. Perhaps not at the moment, but surely once the shock of her revelation wears off, he will be. It's not fair that, after an entire century sacrificed for the sake of Hyrule, that Zelda must do so again, and do so with the entirety of her being. Sheik was furious about the injustice of it all when he found out-- and probably still is. The Light Dragon has been a wedge between them for some time, the elephant in the room when conversation accidentally turns in its direction. And after how far Zelda had come with the creature, manifesting it in her dreams and at the Flower Festival, trying to find peace with it... With the loss of Link, it feels like all of that progress went with him, and the princess is back at the beginning, like the day she first returned to Songerein and tried to escape by swallowing her secret stone.
But as Zelda listens to Satan start to sort through his feelings, what she hears from him is... well, it almost sounds like hope. Perhaps not exactly. Perhaps it's a bit more like stubbornness, a refusal to accept the world as it is and a determination change it as he sees fit.
It's a feeling Zelda knows well, actually. One that she has... forgotten, it seems. This is the feeling drove her throughout her adolescence, that pushed her to challenge the prophecy that said the only way to defeat Calamity Ganon was the princess's sacred power. It's a feeling she prides herself upon as a scientist.
...Hylia, she has missed Satan. She has missed him so much that her heart actually aches with the realization.
It takes awhile for Zelda to find her words and a few long minutes of silence languish after Satan finishes speaking. After everything she has already shared, the emotional peaks and valleys of this long conversation, she feels tired and wrung out. But telling it all to him and hearing him reject the fate she feels is carved in stone eases something inside her. Something that has been hurting since Link left. Something that has felt lost and hopeless. Something that had given up. Satan's words are a spark in her heart, just like they always were when she was young. ]
Thank you. [ For not being angry. For listening. For holding her. For being here.
And these words come out a choked sob (apparently, she did have one left): ] I missed you so much, Satan.
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As she listens to him, her eyes fill with tears and she begins to cry quietly against him. No heart wrenching sobs --the princess hasn't had the strength to cry that hard in weeks-- but muffled little whimpers and a few damp spots on his shirt where she buries her face against him. She wants to hug him again, but her arms are full with the book and she also wants to keep holding it to feel its warmth, so the best she can manage is to lean all of her weight against Satan.
At first, Zelda isn't sure if she really believes Satan when he insisted that he isn't angry. Perhaps not at the moment, but surely once the shock of her revelation wears off, he will be. It's not fair that, after an entire century sacrificed for the sake of Hyrule, that Zelda must do so again, and do so with the entirety of her being. Sheik was furious about the injustice of it all when he found out-- and probably still is. The Light Dragon has been a wedge between them for some time, the elephant in the room when conversation accidentally turns in its direction. And after how far Zelda had come with the creature, manifesting it in her dreams and at the Flower Festival, trying to find peace with it... With the loss of Link, it feels like all of that progress went with him, and the princess is back at the beginning, like the day she first returned to Songerein and tried to escape by swallowing her secret stone.
But as Zelda listens to Satan start to sort through his feelings, what she hears from him is... well, it almost sounds like hope. Perhaps not exactly. Perhaps it's a bit more like stubbornness, a refusal to accept the world as it is and a determination change it as he sees fit.
It's a feeling Zelda knows well, actually. One that she has... forgotten, it seems. This is the feeling drove her throughout her adolescence, that pushed her to challenge the prophecy that said the only way to defeat Calamity Ganon was the princess's sacred power. It's a feeling she prides herself upon as a scientist.
...Hylia, she has missed Satan. She has missed him so much that her heart actually aches with the realization.
It takes awhile for Zelda to find her words and a few long minutes of silence languish after Satan finishes speaking. After everything she has already shared, the emotional peaks and valleys of this long conversation, she feels tired and wrung out. But telling it all to him and hearing him reject the fate she feels is carved in stone eases something inside her. Something that has been hurting since Link left. Something that has felt lost and hopeless. Something that had given up. Satan's words are a spark in her heart, just like they always were when she was young. ]
Thank you. [ For not being angry. For listening. For holding her. For being here.
And these words come out a choked sob (apparently, she did have one left): ] I missed you so much, Satan.