Blood Moon: A Story Before the Calamity

Three

     It's been, Hylia, how long?

     At least seventy years, I think. Hyrule's destruction had slowed, leaving the last of the work to be done by nature, tearing down the last of Hyrule's greatness, returning it to zero.

     I had paced these halls infinite times, but there was nothing left to do in the Castle. So I walked down the Great Hall and tried not to notice how the bricks were reduced to nothing but a pile of rubble, leaving a giant, gaping hole.

     I was going insane. I found myself talking rapidly and fluidly to a suit of armor with no recollection of how I got there. My dreams were disrupted by Link's clear blue eyes fading out and being replaced with the pink of malice. My summoning was becoming steadily more difficult, sometimes I had to reach in deep inside my soul to coax out my dwindling power.

     I wrapped my arms around myself, desperate for a bit of human warmth. I had given up on reading Link's notebook, because it undid me, made me more unsteady, and I could not afford that. So I had taken to caressing the ocarina, never putting my lips to it, and closing my eyes, imagining the feel of sunlight gentle on my skin and a light breeze running through my hair. 

     Link's face was blurry in my memories. So were the Champions', and my father's. I could not remember how my mother looked at all. Everyone that I had ever loved was slowly fading away from me, slipping through my fingers, disappearing into the void of forgetting. 

     I was in pieces. Every day, a tiny part of myself broke away and disappeared. I was being slowly torn down, much like the land that I had once known.

     It was the quiet. Somehow, the silence got to me more than anything else.

A/N: Short chapter, I know. However, this feels like a good place to end, and it reflects how Zelda's slowly losing her sanity. Before, her speeches were long, detailed, with a lot of action, moving forward. However, this chapter was still, like the empty numbness that she was experiencing every day. Next chapter, though. Look out for the next one!

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