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△ “ GAH ! ” She lurched back as a portal had opened in front of her and dropped someone out of it . Unfortunately for this lost wayfarer , the entryway to another time vanished and the boy was trapped in another time . After her fright had faded , she slowly approached him . Zelda knelt and placed her small , slender hand upon his shoulder . It was then that she got a decent look at his face . “ HEY , are you all ri— ” She’d never seen this boy before but . . . . somehow , there was no doubt in her mind that this soul was the one she knew so well : Link . He was worlds different from the face she usually associated with that name . He had such long , golden hair and even softer features . “ It’s . . . . you . ”
--“Woaaaah!”
He did not much enjoy traveling this way. Honestly, couldn’t he had gone a more conventional way, like by horse or carried by a Rito or something? Course, those were non-magical ways and this...Link couldn’t describe this. Nor would he want to if pressed, especially when it so ingloriously dropped him back first to the ground. He saw stars for a moment or three after that, letting himself just lay there as he waited for something to settle, be it his stomach or his head.
That’s when he heard a voice. A touch on his shoulder preceded it, and he swiveled his head so he could take in the poor soul who got to witness his rather dramatic entrance. Blonde, bright eyed, gentle, and for some reason alert with recognition. Well, it wouldn’t be the first time someone knew him and he didn’t in return, though he had the strongest feeling that he should.
Looking a bit like a puppy who just had his tail stepped on, Link shifted to sit up, groaning softly as he did so. The back of his head and back smarted from the fall, though that was fading quickly enough. An extra rub to be sure there wasn’t a goose-egg, and he gave the woman a nod paired with a smile.
“I’m fine.” Link then tipped his head, blinking as he racked his brain for any kind of memory of this woman. Nothing. Though he had to admit she kinda looked like Zelda in her way. A number of things were wrong, the main thing he noticed being the eye color and the hairstyle, but that was the closest he could come.