[ She doesn't expect Sheik to be happy to see her. Things have been tense between them for weeks now-- and even though she's now realizing that might be due in part to the amount of nostilium he has been infected with, a part of it is because of her. Her actions in the wake of Link's departure were selfish and she has been so wrapped up in her own misery that she hasn't realized the way she's been hurting her friends.
Zelda winces at the accusation he levies against her. They're words prompted by the influence of nostilium, spoken intentionally to hurt her, but she suspects that there's some truth to them. Nightmares don't typically spawn out of nothingness-- sometimes, their roots are pain that has been festering in the heart for a long time.
For a year now probably, ever since he found her choking on her secret stone when she first returned. ]
That is not true. Every time I've tried to return home to complete my duty has been difficult. [ Her expression is somber as she regards him, catching from the periphery of her vision the nostilium rippling beneath his feet. ] You know the burden of duty.
[ Then a pause, as something occurs to her, ] Is that how you lost your princess? To her duty?
[ Zelda has no idea what happened to the princess of Sheik's Hyrule, the one he so adamantly insisted Zelda could not be the night they first met. (Really, she doesn't even know for sure that he directly served his era's princess; it's an assumption Zelda made based on his fierce loyalty to her.) ]
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Zelda winces at the accusation he levies against her. They're words prompted by the influence of nostilium, spoken intentionally to hurt her, but she suspects that there's some truth to them. Nightmares don't typically spawn out of nothingness-- sometimes, their roots are pain that has been festering in the heart for a long time.
For a year now probably, ever since he found her choking on her secret stone when she first returned. ]
That is not true. Every time I've tried to return home to complete my duty has been difficult. [ Her expression is somber as she regards him, catching from the periphery of her vision the nostilium rippling beneath his feet. ] You know the burden of duty.
[ Then a pause, as something occurs to her, ] Is that how you lost your princess? To her duty?
[ Zelda has no idea what happened to the princess of Sheik's Hyrule, the one he so adamantly insisted Zelda could not be the night they first met. (Really, she doesn't even know for sure that he directly served his era's princess; it's an assumption Zelda made based on his fierce loyalty to her.) ]