Walking Through the Twilight (Link×Reader)

Chapter 4: You Must Still Be Careful

"Who in the world could this...(Y/N) be?" Zelda mumbles.

Moments later, her eyes flutter open, frantically scanning the area.

Maybe...there's a...chair over here...and...a bookshelf...over there. But over there...it's a bit...brighter.

The woman makes up her mind in the bluriness and tries to get up.

"Ahh," she winces, her legs, back, and shoulders aching as soon as she tries.

She sits back in the terribly worn chair for a second and closes her eyes.

I want to go over there.

She pauses, then finally takes a deep breath in and tries again.

Her knees, elbows, and pretty much everything that can pop does as she rises into a standing position.

I refuse to let a few aches stop me from what I want.

The woman stares at the light and begins to stride towards it. She continues even as her knees buckle and lock, and as she does, more of the room she's in is revealed to her- some empty bookshelves and a small worn table- yet...she continues to turn her gaze to the light.

She halts at the edge of the room, in front of a window, as her pupils finish dialating.

I finally see it at the edge of the world from this tower. I see it past castle town. And I can see it through this big window.

And true to what she thought, at the edge of the world from where she stands, gleams a green light, the color of olive, and a gray light, on the lighter side of the spectrum.

Zelda brings up her hand which she rests on the cold, hard glass of the intricately barred window.

"Unless Midna and Link can save them, Castle Town's residents will continue to wander as doomed souls, barely knowing of the constant danger that surrounds them," Zelda whispers morosely, shifting her saddened gaze from the light to the sad town below.

And...the girl. The girl with them...(Y/N), I think...What is her purpose?...Is it to save us? She can't just be useless because...the living are normally only brought to that area of the Ghostly Ether if the Shade wills it...

She then stands in silence once again for but a moment, scrunching up her face, before beginning to pace the room back and forth and back and forth. She stares ahead intently with every pace and turn.

What feels like half an hour later, she pauses, shifting her gaze downward as she leans the side of her face onto one of her hands.

"I need to so some research," Zelda whispers into the air. "Maybe...in the castle library. Zant had some of the books ordered out of the castle...which I actually couldn't believe he came up with that idea on his own," Zelda lightly chuckles at her thought. "I mean, he is a force to be reckoned with. That's for sure. But I don't think he could come up with his plan alone. I mean, he probably decided to come alone before he enacted his plan to march into this castle, then someone had to advise him to bring backup..."

"No matter," Zelda interrupts her own aloud thoughts. "I want to check the library still. It's possible there are some history books or journals or something that were left untouched that could help answer my lingering questions....I should ask the guard if I can go to keep a low profile, but if he refuses..." Zelda pulls the hood of her black cloak over her head. "I'm not opposed to going myself."

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A small shudder worms its way through your body as you and Link progress through the extremely dim, shadow pervaded hallway. You could barely see, even if you concentrated.