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[Incomplete] Sheik, Link

Nov 13, 2008 23:40

Who: A fully grown Link, Sheik
Where: The river, Sheik's home
When: Early afternoon
Summary: Sheik was meant to be the guide. He was meant to keep one step ahead. Somehow his feet were failing him.
Rating: PG, probably, just to be safe.

( Times change, people move - like a river's flow, it never ends. )

ocarina of time: link, ocarina of time: sheik

Comments 3

faroresson November 13 2008, 23:58:32 UTC

Link, who had accepted this as some kind of weird dream, nevertheless had to take a moment of simply looking at Sheik before replying to him. His eyes rested on the changed outfit, the longer hair, the lyre and the knife and back to the visible red eye. He saw the slight wetness, but didn't choose to comment. His own chest had constricted badly at the very sight of him.

What do you say to someone who's been dead for over eight years?

Sheik, however, broke the ice first, and the black-and-gold dressed knight of Zelda's Queensguard simply snorted lightly.

"No, you just weren't that talkative after all," he said, smiling and brushing snow from his coat. Link's appearance was very different. Whereas before he had a stringy look like a plant kept in the dark, he had filled out now, looking strong and handsome. He held himself with a more relaxed pose, and there was something distinctly more adult about his voice and his mannerisms ( ... )

theeyeoftruth November 17 2008, 21:11:30 UTC

"I'm being practical," Sheik said, bristling rather like a cat caught in a freak shower. He couldn't quite take his eyes from Link, however, his voice a shade more distant with surprise. Seeing him like this threw the other into sharp, stark contrast to the other, and Sheik realised - all over again, with that same sickening lurch - that the other really wasn't whole. Here was what he should have been: married, a father, handsome and full, at ease.

A part of him wondered if he did Link yet another disservice by thinking that.

And then he smiled wanly, but earnestly, bowed his head in a nod, and waited for Link to come close, because it didn't feel right to do it as he always had, walking away from him. He remembered Link reaching out for him, remembered after the Shadow Temple, remembered watching over him whilst he slept...

Why couldn't he have had this? He wondered, bitterly. They should have let him live some kind of life before dragging him here ( ... )

faroresson November 17 2008, 21:30:35 UTC

"What's that meant to mean?"

Link followed after Sheik, but quickly fell into step with him when the Sheikah slowed down. He was glad of that. Sheik had always been unfathomable to Link. A year after Sheik had died - though, in some twisted sense, years before - Zelda had shown Link the old grave in Kakariko, where Sheik was meant to have lain. All he knew of Sheik were some old gouges in weathered stone, either an alphabet he didn't know or was simply too weathered to understand spelling out a long forgotten name ( ... )