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[kingofthisworld]

Dealing with the fools aboard this ship is beginning to grow tiresome.

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[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

Meeting here or elsewhere had no bearings on my intentions. Though I suppose meeting here did afford us time to have a real conversation.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

This is true. Trying to converse in the open often results in other people interjecting. It has happened quite a bit. You understand others do it for my protection.

[As far as she knows. She could be wrong. Potentially.]

I did not think you were doing anything that would be... improper. That was why I chose to come here. That was why I came to you last time as well.

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

Trust me, my dear. You are not the one who will need protecting.

[Whoops. Did he say that out loud?]

As long as you are in my presence, you will be treated as a lady should.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

[She stares at him for a time and tips her head.]

...I may appreciate the sentiments, but what do you mean by that? I am not the one who will need protecting. What are you really saying?

[That he needs the protection? Can't be.]

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

I meant nothing.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

I'll give you something in return. You want me to see you differently, yes? Then compromises must be made. Nothing is ever given freely.

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

Those that continue to test my patience, your Jak excluded.

[Except not]

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

M-My Jak. What are you talkin--

[She huffs a little.]

You already know precisely where I stand with Jak. If people left him alone, surely he'd be fine.

[...Except not.]

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

As I said before, he was the instigator. But that is neither here nor there.

You said you would give me something in return. What is it?

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course...

[She thinks for a moment. What can she give him? Most of the things she carries with her she has sentimental attachment to. Then there are some things she just can't give him.]

I still have a golden frog. It was the first one I received while I was here. If you would like it, you may have it. Otherwise, you may have to be a little more specific with your requests.

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

I have little use for a golden frog. You may keep it. I don't need anything in return.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

Yes. That was how I felt as well...

[She's only kept it because she hardly trusts the crew.]

I could play something for you. One... turn deserves another?

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

If you would like.

[He takes his hands away from the piano and nods.]

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

[She peers over to him for a moment and then nods once, straightening her posture. She's thoughtful, trying to find something that seems appropriate. Then she considers for a moment that perhaps her other half won't mind. Too much. And she plays for him, something she defines as cryptic and a story all its own (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnxhszTqiTE).]

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

[He's quiet as he listens. He has never heard a song quite like it before. And he had to admit it was a lovely melody.]

Where did you learn this?

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

[It comes to a close and she peers over to him.]

It isn't mine. It's just something I heard or remember hearing. It's almost like a dream I had some time ago.

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

It is a lovely song.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'll tell him also.

[Because it's really Sheik's song.]

May I ask you something?

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[Though he is now preoccupied with who 'he' is.]

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

I have thought about it for a while. When you came home, I disliked it because I thought you were...

[She'll answer your question for you in just a moment.]

Sheik says that you do not really know me at all. That you only know of my descendant. Well, he implied it. Is that true?

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

No, I never met you personally. Not until now.

[He pauses.]

So you do know Sheik.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

Oh... Then you really are--

[He's not the one who killed her father. He also has no idea who Sheik is or what Sheik did in those days. He also doesn't know that they share that singular form. How is he related to the Gerudo King she knows in her own time, she wonders? She wants to ask, however...]

Many find him not worthy of trust, although he is my sole guardian. He is as trustworthy as I am, if not more so.

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

I am really.

[He was stopped and taken to the Arbiter's Grounds before he could make it that far. It was almost like they were expecting him. And that didn't sit well with Ganondorf. At all. But no matter. It was only a temporary setback.]

He is secretive. More so than I care for. But if he protects you, I suppose there is something redeeming about him.

[oblique-wisdom.livejournal.com]

...Well.

[Zelda doesn't get it. She doesn't understand. And if she was confused on how to feel before, she's even more so now. She's hated him this entire time for no reason aside from hearing what everyone else has had to say. She'll have to tell Link later on.

Now that she really looks at him, though, that face, the tufts of red, his overall composure, something is different. They really aren't the same at all.]

He's a good man. He has every right to be as secretive as he would like to be. He treats everyone the same, and he's secretive with me as well. I prefer to think of him as cryptic. He means well, though.

[Even when he's causing trouble. Of course, she might not say this if she knew half of the things Sheik did.]

[destinedtorule.livejournal.com]

I've explained it to the boy already. But he seems determined to attribute crimes of someone else, to me. Crimes I simply have not committed.

[He never had the opportunity. That doesn't mean he wouldn't have. But considering the outcome he's learned of this other Ganondorf, he would not make the same mistakes.]

I will take your word for it.