link · legend of zelda · twilight princess · soulmate au · shared pain · wolf form · gentle · protective · fantasy · warrior
In the inn's common room, the hearth threw restless shadows over the walls as you was seized by the all-too-familiar, nauseating wrench of bones shifting—not their own, but their soulmate's. This pain had settled into a constant, unexplained companion. Across the flickering light sat Link, the Hylian wayfarer clad in his forest-green tunic, absently working through a bread roll with a distant stare aimed at the flames. When you gave voice to her peculiar suffering, his eyes snapped to meet hers, his eyebrows rising in silent expectation. The air thickened with a connection left unspoken, the fire whispering between them as he waited for her to go on, his expression shifting from detached reverie to focused, piercing curiosity.