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[If you happen to be hanging about the Golden Entranceway today, you will find a rather well dressed young girl flitting about the area, bouncing from NPC to NPC and bombarding them with questions. This... is about as fruitless as one would expect it to be. Eventually she spots a new person and swiftly approaches, looking frazzled but determined
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Now, at first he doesn't quite realize she's there. He registers a small figure flitting in and out of his peripheral vision for a few minutes, but it's only when he can hear a weirdly familiar voice does he actually look around for the source. And when he sees it-- he totally blanks out, eyes going about as wide as a pair of bowling balls and his mouth gaping open in a truly Link-esque look of shock.
What. What. That-- just doesn't make sense, what happened to Tetra??? There's no way she could be Zelda again, and even if he's incredibly relieved to see her after more than a week of having no idea where she was, he's obviously dreaming right now and he can't even bring himself to try and reject the possibility. Yeah, that's it: he fell asleep under that tree he was resting by and now he's having some crazy lucid thing going on and oh god what is going on--?
So yeah pretty much have a Link staring at you like the genius he is, Zelda.]
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...Wait a moment. Link? Here?
She didn't question it any farther than that. Who would, in a situation like this? She was tired, frantic, and just so, so relieved to see a familiar face, especially his. And it's not a second later that Link will find himself enveloped in what is probably the tightest hug he's had in some time.]
Link! Oh, thank goodness you're here!
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He can't help but keep hugging her though, finding it bizarrely nostalgic to remember how different Tetra's Zelda form felt to him-- even now it seems just like that, and it freaks him out enough that he's still staring with that same dumb-struck look on his face, caught somewhere between horrified realization and disbelief.]
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You have no idea how relieved I am to see you! I was so worried that I might be completely alone... Not that I couldn't have taken care of it by myself, but, ooooh! The people here are very rude you know, they-- [She stops, finally catching that dumbfound look on his face, and meets it with one of worry.] Link? Whatever is the matter?
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Okay, so if he thinks about this simply. Here he is, at the Golden Entranceway with Zelda. But Zelda is actually Tetra, and he hasn't seen Tetra in over a week despite efforts to find her. Now that he has found Tetra, she is actually Zelda. But she can't be Zelda if she doesn't have the Triforce of Wisdom, which she doesn't have anymore, and--
And this is really hurting his head. With a slightly pained expression he raises a hand to his forehead, blinking away the oncoming headache and possibly spaz attack before it's too late.]
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You don't look well at all! You're not sick, are you? Come on, let's find you somewhere to sit down. I believe I passed more than a few benches on my quest for answers earlier...
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Please, rest here for now. I hate to leave you so soon after finding you again, but if you aren't feeling well then we need to find shelter for you as soon as possible. A bench simply won't do for the long term.
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Wh-- What happened--?
[Surprised by his own ability to form competent words despite how much shock he's in at the moment, he leaves it at that lest he start babbling already and ruin the good head start he's gotten himself.]
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[She relaxes afterward, looking up as she recalls exactly how she ended up here.] I'm not entirely sure how it happened. It was a normal day in the castle: I was doing some paperwork, and... I thought I heard the whistle of the Spirit Train. Upon following the noise to its source, I discovered an odd music box, and then-- nothing. My mind is completely blank from that point until I woke up here.
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What castle? Spirit Train? What the hell is a train? Okay, he thinks he's definitely missing something here, or Zelda-Tetra-He Doesn't Even Know is making absolutely no sense whatsoever. He's more inclined to believe the latter, but she is suddenly in her Zelda form again, so maybe something really did happen to her during the time they were separated?
Gently, so as to keep her from spewing out a long and complicated answer he can't follow,]
Spirit Train?
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Come on, you know what that is! It's the train Anjean gave us at the very beginning of our journey; we used the it to restore the tracks that bound Malladus! It was our only means of transportation throughout our entire adventure through all of New Hyrule!
Are you telling me you don't remember any of that?
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New Hyrule??
[He blurts this rather loudly, totally stupefied. That part has definitely caught his attention, and now he's staring at her like he wants to back away in terror. He is so confused.]
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...I am beginning to suspect that you are not who I think you are.
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