The Sage of Healing

Chapter 8 -

Author's note : I recommend just listening to beautiful and chill Zelda Lofi music playlists, or whatever you find beautiful to listen to.... This book is here to help inspire you to relax and remind you to enjoy things in life....

Warning - Main OC does have a change of personality this chapter, but will revert to normal later. It'll make sense, trust me... :)

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Waking up, I let my eyes drift open lazily. It was another comfortable morning in my soft blankets. Shifting, I stretched out in the large bed, helping the blood flow in my body.

I was in a good mood.... Not that I had been upset since I've been in Hyrule. Besides meeting the Zoran prince briefly around two weeks ago, every day has been nothing but enjoyable. As life around the castle continued, I got more and more comfortable with certain things.

I pulled the pink secret stone from my pocket and gazed at it lovingly. I had been close to it since I first woke up in Hyrule. But lately, a new feeling has been taking its place in my heart, driving away the need to hold onto it.

My feelings for Mineru.... The care I had for my friends. Interest in the rest of the lands of Hyrule and the people that lived within. I felt like I no longer needed to rely on the stone.

... As for why I felt this way, I wasn't sure. But letting go of it seemed like a bad idea for some odd reason...

My magic powers came inherently, and the secret stone amplified that. But I felt there was another reason that I had it on me, I just wasn't sure why.

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Rauru also told me that the stone was supposed to fuse to my clothes in some sort of fitting manner. Weirdly enough, that didn't seem to be the case for me.

Regardless, I held the stone in my palm and tried to mentally coax it... or something. With a resigned sigh, I set it down on the small bedside cupboard. Nothing seemed to react or change to my efforts.

I finished with my morning preparations. Making sure my clothes were set and nice, I checked my reflection in the small mirror hung on the bathroom wall.

I gave my self a confident smile and left my room. I had arranged to meet with Mineru at the castle entrance after breakfast, where she would show me how to get to the floating islands above... Something that I desperately wanted to know, yet something she was keeping teasingly secret.

She had offered to show me to her workshop, which I had agreed to immediately. I thought her study in the castle was where she worked, but apparently she has a much better-equipped laboratory on one of the floating islands. It turns out that all the floating islands were Zonai in origin, which had been a question I've been waiting to ask. Most of the questions involving the Zonai I've had I haven't asked yet.

While I walked to the dining room for breakfast, I mulled over what I had been up to in my spare time.

Each day when I couldn't spend time with Mineru, I was practicing something. I played the different instruments that Hyrule had to offer, tested out my other weapon skills, and generally just worked out my body.

I was well-known around the castle by many people now. I was friendly with everyone, helping out wherever I could. I would also take trips into town too, just to get to know even more people and see all that a Hyrulian town had to offer.