[2025 Album Challenge] The Legend of Zelda: 'And You're Afraid to Let Your Eyes Meet Mine'

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Title: 'And You're Afraid to Let Your Eyes Meet Mine'
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Tears of the Kingdom')
Characters: King Rauru, Queen Sonia, Princess Zelda
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to 100words

Artist: Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Album: Greatest Hits
Song: 'Woman, Woman'

Summary: Zelda is the key, and the lock, to a great mystery.


Zelda is the key, and the lock, to a great mystery. Neither Rauru nor Sonia can fully grasp her.

The way she'll sometimes avoid looking either of them in the face. Her strange moments of sorrow. The frank, knowing terror that they both sometimes see in her eyes.

They are all her tells. Silent evidences of secrets being kept. Secrets that, perhaps, it's better not to reveal.

Whatever is to come, Zelda is proof that there's a future for this land. Knowing that is enough.

So Sonia and Rauru do their best not to pry into their distant descendant's soul.