✉ Partners In Heir ✉ Sidlink ✉

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"Hurry! To the domain!" Sidon barked. He was not a ruthless cold leader. He was kind and gentle. His voice was a mere urgency in that stead. So when his gang of guards and his spouse hurriedly ran frantically out the tunnels and out sooner than midnight, Sidon was owing explanations to everyone.

Hylia forgive the causer of image I had to bare this night. I plea...

The traditional shortened prayer to the goddess Hylia echoed through two men's minds that night. Both witness and accused. But witness and accomplice were technically the same by logic of the goddesses. Thus the plea was on deaf ears. Neither forgiven. One leaving the mountain unpunished. While the other perhaps damned. The zora in question offering to even out a more reasonable trade and to never speak of the crime he saw. The Goron accepting.

So now Sidon was running with a secret, or slithering rather; pretending to be more scared then he was.

Outside of lava crusted mountains the night felt colder then what it was. The potions cooling them still also, making the night's chill all present among them. But their awaiting horses stood patiently as they chewed grass around the entryway. "Link! On the way out push a wooden pillar down!" Sidon pleaded from ahead of the group. As ordered Link shoved a remaining pillar down upon departure of the heated brown soot of death mountain's former trade tunnel system.

By the time Link was out the whole cave was rubble and a few splinters. His breathing was hitched and gritty. Perhaps it were the dust or he smoked too often. But these moments were why he found himself so addicted to herbs and ale. Because he could die that night knowing he could've been happy-in-the-mind the night before. Or drunk as a skunk and act as a pert young hussey to his beloved. Regardless of the thought, he slowly regained composure to tend to Sidon who was huffing and panting as much as anyone, but for him more harshly as he had to slither the fastest out of all of them.

"Love wha' 'appened back t'ere?!" Link spurted after heavy and hard attempts at meeting his breath again. Sidon's tail bent to let him set himself in the grass, hands on his knees as he panted with sweat glistening in the moon, soon to be dried by how cold this particular night was.
"Bludo was dead when I saw him, the disease drove him mad and he ended his own anguish!" Sidon revealed.
"Suicide?" Ledo asked surprised. "He was indeed mad but was he that mad?" Sidon shrugged, popped his neck and said "Simply put, Hylia may be the only one to know,"

That's a lie Sidon. Hylia is not lonely in her understanding of the situation.

"Regardless, a war ended before it began on this night!" Link pointed out. I can raise my son. Raise him in peace to bring him to his crown! Link was far more joyous then he need be. Considering a former comrade died. Link wanted to kick himself for having such joy. But his son was saved. He had to think of Hyrule as a whole, and had Bludo continued on, he would destroy it much like Ganondorf had almost done previously. Plan two didn't need to be of any concern to him.

"Wait...where is Muzu...?" Sidon asked suddenly. His heart stopped. If Muzu were investigating for himself in search of him in Goron city, he could find the truth or be caught or-"He returned home to rest. Weaker bodies get less potion times. But ah will he not be thrilled to hear the news?!" A guard explained. Sidon let his shoulders ease downwards. "I must find Minima. We have to set for the domain as though we were not here at all. If we get captured we may never get the chance to celebrate eh?" He asked.

The King's men agreed. With him on his horse and tail coiled around a piece of the saddle built for him he rode as his lover had his white horse to ride as well. Soon finding an inn. Sure enough opened as usual, and the group checked in with a tab on Sidon and a round purchased to cheers to. Making Link of course the heaviest of chuggers that night. As well as the loudest singer in the pub. As well as the most rowdy dancer. As well as the most raunchiest of jokesters.
Link was laughing and clinging to Sidon when a second ago he seemed lost in thought.
"What makes you laugh this hard pearl?"