Living With Myself

Chapter 12

Sheik left the three Links at the room of the second floor of the inn and walked downstairs to order dinner for all of them.

His body still buzzed with all the repressed emotions from the day. Too much had happened, too fast.

Or too slow, depending on how you saw it. The irony of things always made Sheik smile tensely.

After he ordered dinner, he went outside to look at the stars. He couldn't remember anything from his sleep, but he felt a need to see the stars again that he couldn't explain. A part of his self had missed looking up at them.

"Shortest magical nap I've had."

The memory of Link's words made him laugh, and a few passers by stared at him. Sheik watched them resume walking in the silent summer night. So Ganondorf had really been defeated. He needed no more proof than to see the people walk at ease around the village, talking animatedly with each other and laughing.

He'd missed laughing so much. Which made it all better to hear Link laugh. Most things were getting better than he had expected. Even if at the same time, others turned out darker and more dangerous than he could understand. Things he hadn't even been aware of. Like the fact that he had apparently spent the last nice years asleep. He found that he understood how Link had felt, descending from the temple of Light after those seven years had passed.

Now he knew the way he had felt, walking out into a new world, covered in darkness.

Sheik looked up to the clear sky full of stars, and realized that while Link had woken up to a nightmare, he had woken up to a dream. Ganondorf was gone. Gone for good. Sheik tried to feel happy for it. Or at least relieved, but he couldn't stop thinking about the fact that the shield he had been trapped in had apparently been created by the sages of Light and Spirit. He didn't want to believe it. He wanted to think Link had been wrong, and he had somehow been captured by one of Ganondorf's minions, but...

"Zelda said you weren't real. That it had been her all along."

He clenched his fists. That made no sense, and was the only reason he had decided to stay back with. There was no reason the princess would say that. During seven years he had protected her, served her, and kept her out of harm's way, even when he had to turn his back to the way the Sheikah had been hunted down like animals. So why?

The only thing he could think about was that she and the sages had decided that Sheik posed a threat. And if they thought so, there were only two answers: That he was indeed a treath to them at that point in the war, for reasons he currently couldn't remember nor understand, possibly involved Ganon's magic. That, or there was a traitor among them, plotting against him. And if the second alternative was right, the traitor was still around, and even worse, around princess Zelda.

He still wanted to run to princess Zelda right away. To demand an explanation. But after hearing Link's story, he couldn't leave his side. Something had happened, and Link hadn't explained even half of it.

Sheik knew when things started to get out of control, and right now they were far, far from any kind of order.

He felt the shadow's presence before he made himself known by ticking at Sheik's ankles.

"Dinner's served, sir," he said with mock formality.

Sheik looked down at the living shadow smirking at him from the ground, and in his eyes he saw a tinge of blue, shining just under the surface.

He had known from the first moment, that he couldn't destroy him.

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