[MagicWritings]

Found a tiny bit of time and energy, hope you like this next short bit...

When finally, Link was only several dozens of yards away from Nabooru’s face, he stopped Epona and jumped off onto the sand. A strange, sweet scent hung in the air. Apparently, Ruto hadn’t been as asleep as she had seemed – she had already dismounted as well.

‘Link…’ she muttered, actually a little worried. ‘That’s … Nabooru…’ Link nodded, and looked into the enormous eyes that looked down on him. It was a strange feeling, looking into eyes that were quite as big as himself.

‘Link…’ the enormous voice of Nabooru echoed through the air. She was whispering, but the sound was painfully loud to Link’s ears nonetheless. He began trying to explain the situation to Nabooru as well as he could, but his scarce use of words didn’t make matters clear.

After a toilsome few minutes of “explaining”, Nabooru at least understood that Zelda was on the way, and that an attempt would be made to heal her from the Curse. A shadow came over Nabooru’s face as she understood, leaving Link puzzled.

But he didn’t even have to ask. Nabooru outspoke her worries. ‘Link, even if the Curse is stopped, and I don’t get… even bigger… I’m already way too enormous to live a normal life. What point will it have?’

Link wasn’t sure how to answer, and was even more dismayed when Ruto began to speak. He had been afraid for a while she could put up a competitive attitude in relation to her relationship with him, which was neither relevant nor useful at that time.

‘Nabooru, Nabooru,’ Ruto’s somewhat more awake sounding voice echoed through the desert. ‘Have you forgotten? Us Sages have all been in horrible situations at one point or another. Remember when you were brainwashed, and fighting Link in a suit of armor?’

A huge frown appeared on Nabooru’s face, but she kept listening. Link was increasingly surprised as well. ‘Well, that time, Link came through for you, didn’t he? And when I was alone in the dark depths of the Water Temple, he came through for me,’ she went on.

‘This Curse, whatever it is… Link has faced far worse foes, I dare say! I didn’t choose him as my husband for nothing…’ she added in a playful tone. Nabooru nodded. ‘Thanks, Ruto,’ her voice blasted. Ruto smiled, and Link was still observing the situation with a hanging jaw.

‘Now, Link… I assume we have to wait for Zelda, like you so beautifully explained?’ Ruto asked. Link nodded, but wondered where the playful side of Ruto had gone off to. ‘Well, we might as well have a drink then,’ Ruto continued, bouncing her breasts and winking at Link.

Nabooru sighed at Ruto’s behaviour – an act that made both Ruto and Link fall over. Link was a little confused at how quickly Ruto had switched between her childish and mature attitudes, but was glad to have had her help – he had never been good at conversation.

‘It’ll take until morning for Zelda to get her, if I understood your demonstrative explanation well,’ Ruto inquired, shivering a bit in the rapidly cooling desert air. Link nodded once more. ‘We had better find a way to escape the cold…’ Link thought to himself.

He needn’t have worried, however, as Nabooru lay right next to them in a position she found comfortable, and so that they were in the area where she breathed. So long as they were already on the ground, it didn’t make them fall over, and it was quite warm.

With that, Link and Ruto had a drink – from the bottles of water, of course – and went to sleep, feeling that tomorrow all their worries would finally be over.