"Link, look!" Zelda cried. She pulled her horse to a stop in the middle of the road, pointing up at the sky.
Link pulled up beside her and looked up to where she was pointing. A snakey figure was lacing its way through the clouds, a gold and blue light trailing off behind it.
"That's the Light Dragon." Zelda explained. "There have been a mere handful of recorded sightings, dating all the way back to the Imprisoning War and the founding of Hyrule! It's said that the mystical being appears as an omen for dark times ahead. Although some view it as a promise that there'll be light at the end of the tunnel, as every apocalyptic event it's foreshadowed, Hyrule has pulled out of."
She eagerly grabbed the Sheikah Slate to take a picture before it disappeared. "A favorite historian of mine references records that suggest that the dragon itself might in face be a hylian spirit who assumed the form for some unknown reason.
"There are several different opinions as to who the spirit may have been originally, before becoming a dragon. Though all those stories are just folktales for all we know.
"Some say she was once a warrior in the Imprisoning War whom Hylia turned into a dragon for reasons debated upon. Others suggest that she is just a messenger of sorts, whose main goal is to deliver something. I don't know which I find most believable. All I really know is the dragon is much too high for even a Rito to reach, so her mysteries shall remain mysteries for now..."
Zelda sighed and returned the Sheikah Slate to her belt. "But they were all right about her comforting presence. Almost like a mother's touch, right Link?"
Link nodded absently and Zelda kicked her horse into a walk, but Link stayed behind, his gaze locked on that snakey figure.
Comfort?
The only feeling Link got was an uneasy feeling.
"Link?" Zelda called, making Link hurry to catch up to the Princess.
The uneasy feeling Link got from the dragon stayed with him long enough for him to examine it.
It felt like someone had knotted up his insides, making his legs feel shaky (thought that could just be from the riding) and making him feel empty inside.
It was a feeling that almost drove him to tears, a feeling that could only be described as one thing.
Loss.
Link didn't bother to hold back the tears as he fell to his knees next to the now empty crater in the sand.
There was a patch of Silent Princess flowers that had somehow grown out of nothing around him while he was under. They were her favorite flower...
He...he couldn't believe she'd done it. I mean, he understood why she'd done it, he just couldn't believe that she'd actually done it.
A road broke through his pity party, mirroring his sorrow, as it drew attention to a majestic creature that looked as if it had emerged from the ocean as it arched over the cliff.
Link had always felt odd when he'd seen it on his adventure. For one, last he'd checked, there had only been three dragons in Hyrule: Dinraal, Naydra, and Farosh.
Those three had always made him feel welcomed and comfortable. However, the Light Dragon always filled Link with the same kind of emptiness and loss that he would feel whenever he thought of the Champions or his old family.
Now he knew why.
The dragon that had once been his Link's one love flew away and he knew she would never recognize him again.
That his Zelda was never coming back.
