[ Zelda is grateful to be pulled in closer to Link, to feel him press a kiss upon her head, because she is deeply in need of his warm and solid form to ground her. Spring has come to Songerein, but the nights are still so very cold and she has spent too many of them alone.
It does hurt marginally less, losing Revali this time, but not by much. Knowing that waking from this dream means that his life ends makes her heart ache something fierce. She's glad that they were able to tell him how they defeated Calamity Ganon. She's glad she could tell him how Rito Village is flourishing, how Teba's son is someday going to shatter all of Revali's records. What Zelda wouldn't give to share such things with Mipha, Daruk, and Urbosa.
She makes a noise of affirmation against Link, but doesn't lift her head. Her thoughts aren't only of Revali. Somnus is gone as well, as is Trahearne, and the ends of their lives here also mean their deaths. It hurts, and Zelda has lost several nights since then sitting at the foot of Link's bed crying into a pillow, because at least his sleeping form is better than complete solitude.
And then, on the night she does finally manage to get some sleep, she dreams of Link's solitude --total, absolute, and utterly heartwrenching. His pain is so fresh on the surface of her mind that she feels like she's a hairtrigger away from being overwhelmed by it.
Zelda shifts her position in such a way that she is close enough to hear the steady thump of Link's heartbeat. The rhythm is soothing. ]
Have you been dreaming about it all this time? [ "It" being the Light Dragon.
Zelda has been trying, really, to find some measure of peace with the creature she will become. It was easier to chase when it was just a goal, nebulous, a means to an end. Seeing it, seeing it hurt and others hurt by it... Even though she is trying so hard to just live in the here and now, with whatever time she and Link have left, the dragon is always there, looming in the dark corners of her mind. Waiting, because eventually, the here and now will run into the future. And a future of solitude, now that she knows love with Link, is steadily becoming too unbearable to imagine. ]
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It does hurt marginally less, losing Revali this time, but not by much. Knowing that waking from this dream means that his life ends makes her heart ache something fierce. She's glad that they were able to tell him how they defeated Calamity Ganon. She's glad she could tell him how Rito Village is flourishing, how Teba's son is someday going to shatter all of Revali's records. What Zelda wouldn't give to share such things with Mipha, Daruk, and Urbosa.
She makes a noise of affirmation against Link, but doesn't lift her head. Her thoughts aren't only of Revali. Somnus is gone as well, as is Trahearne, and the ends of their lives here also mean their deaths. It hurts, and Zelda has lost several nights since then sitting at the foot of Link's bed crying into a pillow, because at least his sleeping form is better than complete solitude.
And then, on the night she does finally manage to get some sleep, she dreams of Link's solitude --total, absolute, and utterly heartwrenching. His pain is so fresh on the surface of her mind that she feels like she's a hairtrigger away from being overwhelmed by it.
Zelda shifts her position in such a way that she is close enough to hear the steady thump of Link's heartbeat. The rhythm is soothing. ]
Have you been dreaming about it all this time? [ "It" being the Light Dragon.
Zelda has been trying, really, to find some measure of peace with the creature she will become. It was easier to chase when it was just a goal, nebulous, a means to an end. Seeing it, seeing it hurt and others hurt by it... Even though she is trying so hard to just live in the here and now, with whatever time she and Link have left, the dragon is always there, looming in the dark corners of her mind. Waiting, because eventually, the here and now will run into the future. And a future of solitude, now that she knows love with Link, is steadily becoming too unbearable to imagine. ]