[ There's a moment where Somnus seems to simply... watch Zelda. It's not unusual for silence to pass between them—Somnus is hardly the talkative sort—but this is different, as though he's looking for something. Zelda's brows furrow, as they frequently do in his company, and she wonders what he's looking for. He isn't like Link, or the other quiet souls the princess spends a lot of time around. Zelda can rarely read his expressions, as though his visage is carved from the same cold marble his touch so resembles.
But of all the things she might have expected from him (several of which were some form of lecture), supportive words and a reassuring hand on her shoulder were not it.
Zelda lets his words hang in the air for a moment, searching—fruitlessly as ever—for an answer in his face. There's none to be found, but that also doesn't really matter; regardless of why, those words are what she needed to hear.
Zelda's expression, as ever, betrays everything she feels, her big green eyes an open book of her thoughts. There's surprise there, to be sure, but more than that. Gratitude. Resolve. A glimpse of the strength Link has seen in her, the strength that carried her across her ruined country and directly into the maw of the Calamity itself when all was lost. Underneath all the fear and all the trauma is a young woman who has single handedly held off her kingdom's destruction for an entire century. ]
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But of all the things she might have expected from him (several of which were some form of lecture), supportive words and a reassuring hand on her shoulder were not it.
Zelda lets his words hang in the air for a moment, searching—fruitlessly as ever—for an answer in his face. There's none to be found, but that also doesn't really matter; regardless of why, those words are what she needed to hear.
Zelda's expression, as ever, betrays everything she feels, her big green eyes an open book of her thoughts. There's surprise there, to be sure, but more than that. Gratitude. Resolve. A glimpse of the strength Link has seen in her, the strength that carried her across her ruined country and directly into the maw of the Calamity itself when all was lost. Underneath all the fear and all the trauma is a young woman who has single handedly held off her kingdom's destruction for an entire century. ]
Thank you.