Zelda paced around the room, furious about the sudden events. Link watched and stood there, dressed in a servant’s attire, which looked terrible on him.

“I,” Zelda growled. “…Hate my father!”

Link didn’t bother trying to calm her down, and she was glad for that.

“I,” she furiously said. “…Hate the guards!”

She paced for a couple minutes before sitting on her bed.

“And I honestly hate myself for getting you into this,” Zelda sighed. “This is all my fault.”

“Princess, no its…”

“It’s Zelda unless were around some stupid royal or noble public,” Zelda interrupted.

“Zelda,” Link corrected himself. “Don’t punish yourself for this. I might’ve gone to jail anyway.”

Zelda popped out of her bed. “No you wouldn’t! You wouldn’t be charged for committing a crime! You would be like the world’s most famous hero or something else if everything worked out right! It’s all my fault!”

“Actually I was charged for stealing to, which I admit I did,” Link replied, trying to make her feel better. Zelda became curious.

“Why did you steal two apples from a small shop in Kakariko anyway?”

Link fidgeted. “This,” he stopped fidgeting and brought it out. “…Guy… He was scaring away two destitute children and it would kill me if I didn’t get them food and I didn’t have any money so I stole it.”

Zelda stood up again and made sigh from stress. A few moments later she realized something. She quickly turned around and gave Link an annoyed look.

“Do you enjoy being some sort of hero?”

“What?”

“Do you enjoy being a hero? Is that some sort of hobby of yours, because to me it seems like a bad habit?”

Link couldn’t believe the words he was hearing. “What! Did you want me not to stop those men?”

“No, I’m just asking. You had a choice,” Zelda stated, truthfully. Link shook his head.

“I wasn’t thinking really thinking about the consequences and neither was I for stealing the fruit for those children. I just get this feeling that I should help them, or something worse will happen to me.”

“Like what? You wouldn’t get tortured if you didn’t help those children, not that I discourage you to ignore the cries of help of the destitute.”

Link lowered his head and sighed. “Not physically.”

Those words had such an impact on the room, and silence echoed until after a few moments. Zelda broke it.

“What do you mean?”

He made another sigh. “Can we please talk about something else? Is there anything you want of me?”

Zelda frowned. “No, I don’t want anything of you, Link. Can you please answer my question?”

Link looked at her eyes and recalled those moments of regret. “I’ve always been used to saving people for so long. It’s scares me that if I don’t help someone, it will end up like last time.”

“Last time?” Zelda asked curiously.

Link looked up at the ceiling with a sigh and remembered his most horrifying events in his younger age.

~As it poured rain and blood, people screeched in pain, wanting nothing more than to end it. Female gerudos dashed around the place, quickly removing the innocent hylians one by one. All the while a little boy came running in the massacre.

“Mommy?” shouted the boy as people fled for safety.

“Mommy!” he shouted louder.

“Link!” replied another voice. Link looked towards the noise.

A woman stood there on the ground, blood draining out of her body and mouth as a gerudo smirked and kicked her down on the ground. Link froze in terror for a second as the gerudo finished the tortured woman off.

At first the little boy went for his little dagger he trained with all his life, but looking at the large gerudo woman made him scared. He was so scared that he forgot about his dagger and ran to the woods.~

Zelda listened in horror as Link recalled the events that happened in his childhood. Link lowered his head again.

“I came back a year later, hearing that a group of emergency doctors came by and I went to ask them about her and…”

Link forced himself not to cry. He would not cry, he kept telling himself. But his attempts were futile. Tears dripped down his face. Zelda was afraid to ask, but mustered up the courage.

“What happened?” Zelda asked. Link bit his lip.

“They,” Link cried. “They! They said…”

He started over again. “They said that if she had been taken to them ten minutes ago…”

Zelda held back tears as he uttered those words.

“They said if she had been taken to them ten minutes ago, she would’ve lived.”

Zelda watched in horror as Link broke down from those moments.

“I promised myself that I would never ever, ever make that same mistake again,” Link finished. Zelda ran up to him and hugged him in a tight embrace, both teary from these horrifying memories.