starter for @swornhero ⚔️
It had been a week since Link had put himself in harm’s way to save her. A week where she had mulled over every rude thing she had said to him up until that point, every horrible action that had been unjustified because of her own shortcomings. It was hard for the princess to look at him and not see her own failures -- but she owed him more than that. Though Zelda had never wanted a knight to protect her, Link was just doing what had been asked of him and didn’t deserve the anger she had been directing his way.
A soft sigh leaves the blonde as she pulls herself from her thoughts, realizing that she had been staring at the screen of the Sheikah slate for some time now without having said anything. Blue eyes lift from the object in her hands towards the swordsman some distance before her. “ We’re almost there. ” According to her map, the spring they had been searching for wasn’t too much further.
“ We can stop and rest, if you would like, though. ”