It was something my dad had told not long after we had both witnessed the events in the chamber under the Statue of the Goddess. "Zelda, it would be best if the people of Skyloft knew nothing of the events that are transpiring on the Surface," my father told me before leaving my room for the last time that night. "Are you sure?" I queried, confused. "Yes Zelda," he said. "Rumor travels faster than fact, and often is the basis for hasty decisions that cause disasterious consequences." "But Zelda..." "Please Karane, when I say I can 't tell you, I can 't. Please, just leave me alone. I 'm going to look for Link." Karane looked at Pippit for support; but he only shrugged his shoulders. She then gave him a mutinous look that would make most boys …show more content…
"Nice outfit. What will it be today?" "Thanks," I said. "Some of your dried-out food please. And could you throw in some of your energy snacks while you are out it." "Sure," she said, turning around to get what I had requested. She started pulling down various items from her shelves when a drawling voice, the last that I wanted to hear, said "Zelda." I turned on my heel to see my least favorite person in the world at this moment, Groose running towards me, his ugly arms extended. "Thanks goodness you 're alright," he said. "I heard what happened. I can 't believe you weren 't taken too." He heard what had happened? Is Dad insane....wait, unless the redhead overheard Karane and Pippit talking about it. He tried to hug me, but I resisted. It became a confused strangling match for a few minutes, before I finally succeeded in extricating myself from his suffocating (I mean literally) grasp. "Enough!" I shouted at him. "I asked you not to do that." A sheepish grin crept across his face. Did he even register what I just said? "You weren 't being serious, were you?" "I was," I said in the most dangerious voice I could muster. "Now move." "Zelda, why did you go flying with a coward that can 't even endure a little gust of