‘ you are here, you are here, you’re still right here. ’ // from hylia… ------ @arbitergrounds / accepting!
they don’t realize they’re looking in her eyes as they do --- an indistinguishable expanse of blinding white greets & embraces & kisses their weary head right where they float about in the nothingness, cursed daughter finally returning to the closest thing to a wakeful state after enduring the brief decade that doused them like ice water falling from a balcony, as if ten years had only occupied the span of their short exhale. they were the squeezed-shut eyes of a newborn child taking his first breath in the cautiously padded east gerudo stable... he lived to ten. they felt it when he died. it got incredibly cold.
zelda, ( their name, it always has been, even though they remember vividly in their battered heart their borrowed time as tirulph, riga, korri, nashil... ) this zelda meekly raises their arms, phantom hands perhaps mindlessly chasing after the headwater whence soothing voice flows like a clear stream, even though there is nothing, absolutely nothing their skin ( do they still have skin? ) can/can’t touch. “ why do you keep saying that? ”
you are here. you’re still right here. i’m in you. are we the same? ( i have your eyes & everything is white. do we have the same eyes? ) “ i never know where ‘ here ’ is, i don’t even know what you look like. ” they’ve been blind since their momentous descent into the belly of the beast. the sanctum snapped its jaws & swallowed them down like bitter medicine only pursued soon after by a frightful pool of malice, & still there is nothing truly dark about this place. the sun constantly shines in their eyes. they may as well see her everywhere.
it’s much too difficult to formulate into words this otherworldly frustration, zelda finds. amongst the other indescribable things, they feel frail & scornful. they must be aging, for neither do they know how long it has been. “ i find it the slightest bit humorous, you know. you’ve kept me in the dark for so long. now, i suppose i know too much. can’t you make it stop? ”
