Revali,
I shared with Zelda that I took her advice and began writing to you... I figure my expression was not what I believed it to be. She tried to hide away a frown but lately I've found myself paying attention to the smallest details-- maybe another side effect of not having the weight of the world upon my shoulders. Do you remember when you told me I worried too much and overburdened myself? I'm beginning to realize that I must have done it to keep my own thoughts at bay. At least that is what I'm assuming my self from all those years ago would have done the same.
A hundred years... waking up in a place I did not know to a voice I should have known, taking my first renewed steps into a world I grew up in but did not recognize. Could I really be the same person from before? Would you still feel about me the way you did? Plenty of times I find myself regretting that I never spoke my feelings for you with clear intent but the princess continues to assure me that my memories of us together were far more than friendly fondness. How I would give moments of my life to feel my fingers burrowed into your feathers again. A thought that instills so much light in me can be quickly taken over by fear as again I worry you may not see me the same.
Our last conversations... I replay them when my mind is silent. I believe you were putting up your confident facade then but were hurt by the lack of recognition that must have appeared in my eyes. I'm continuing to remember things even now all these months later, things that I wish I could reminisce with you about. A light that I am trying to hold onto is that regaining these memories I can find myself capable of hearing you with clarity. Your laugh, your voice and all its tones-- the click of your tongue that I'm learning I heard far too often.
I wonder if in the afterlife you are capable of forgetting... if you will forget about me just as I did you. My chest hurts now at the thought-- is that how you felt when we were finally reunited?
Revali... I'm sorry.
- Link














