[X] Eat dinner and not invade any of your friend's privacy.
You follow Paya out of the girl's room, putting everything you saw out of your mind for now.
However, it turned out you weren't having dinner in the dining room, instead eating it in the garden as it was a warm night and Mipha wanted to eat with her brother for a change. The ever-cheerful Zora claps you on the back, and with a bright smile says "I heard you kept up with Impa today! Haha! You continue to impress friend! No doubt your quest will be finished in no time! I have the highest faith in you!"
Feeling a bit self-conscious you dive back into your meal, bite-sized pieces of venison cooked in sauce with a side of rice, a soup and cooked vegetables. Most of the prep-work it turned out was making a portion that Sidon could enjoy.
Impa joins you half-way through the meal, having dropped off the leftover meat to the other guards and their families. Apparently Dorian got the best cuts, for Koko and Cottla.
Finishing your dinner you spend some idle time chatting, Sidon explaining that the Zora elders had acclimated well, and both him and Undyne had familiarized themselves with the area around Kakariko village. While there wasn't anything near the village from what they could determine there was a curfew in place, something you hadn't had time to check up on as you had only left at night to kill the Stalnox. Seems the ceremony for you to be accepted as a night was a welcome chance to get out and enjoy the warm summer evenings.
Impa is mostly quiet, offering little comment other than saying that with monsters becoming more aggressive lately and with so few guards the curfew was unfortunately necessary. Still, with Sidon and Undyne's help, the burden on the guards was thankfully lessened, and they were all appreciative.
As the evening went on you all quietly one by one slipped off to go to bed. With all the action today you're out like a light the moment your head hits the pillow.
Sadly your sleep isn't restful, tossing and turning not with concrete dreams but almost fever-like rolling of indistinct shapes and feelings. The only thing you could be certain of was the feeling of a sword gripped in your hands and an unbridled fury at everything around you, yet you couldn't consider in your dream addled state as to
why. You also don't wake suddenly when Zelda opens your door to wake you, simply rousing exhausted with your bed soaked through with sweat.
Zelda is of course immediately concerned, asking if you had a nightmare but you wave her off by saying it was probably just too hot in your room. She leaves to let you get up, and you spend a few minutes thinking of your dream. Were you frustrated at something that your dream involved lashing out at something? Nothing comes to mind, not in the grand scheme of things, but a dream could bring up anything from memory.
Without really coming to any conclusions you end up just sighing, putting on a simple white tunic and brown shorts before heading to grab some breakfast, which was soup, rice, a sweet omelet and a salad that you quickly wolf down before heading to the bath to clean up.
Morning ritual complete you return to your room to put away your bathing supplies like your razor only to find someone already there, apparently having rifled through your belongings.
Paya was standing in the middle of your room, pressing your blue tunic to her chest with a very strange expression on her face, a slight blush creeping into her cheeks. A basket filled with clothes that were very much not yours seemed to indicate she was collecting laundry when she stopped to... inspect your tunic? You weren't sure what she was doing.
Clearing your throat gave the expected reaction, as Paya immediately let out a shriek and dropped your tunic, whirling around to face you as she turned bright red.
"M-master L-Link?!" Paya stammers out, panic overwhelming her.
You hold up your hand in a hopefully calming gesture, "It's fine, need help with laundry?"
"A-ah..." Paya seems to take a second to remember why she was in your room before exclaiming "O-oh! N-no no no, I-I am quite alright! Do not trouble yourself with me!"
Judging by how many clothes were in her basket you have the sneaking suspicion Paya was going to spend most of the day on laundry alone. Considering how she seems to have avoided Zelda and knowing your royal friend judging by how she only got to your room now you also suspect she was avoiding Zelda so the Princess wouldn't rush in to help her dear friend.
So what do you do? Choose only one.
[] Help Paya with her chores.
[] Hang out with Zelda.
[] Hang out with Mipha.
[] Join Impa on guard duty.
[] See what Sidon is up to.
[] Write-in
Yeah, small update. Couldn't think of how to drag it out.
