The Man with the Winning Smile

Waking of Saturday, March 11, 2017 ~ 4

The Man with the Winning Smile

I entered the shrine and received the Spirit Orb, came back out, beat up a stray Lizalfos and stole his sword.... and made my way toward the bridge.

Another voice called out to me.

“Yo, hey there! Young one!”

I looked around.

“Up here, above you!” the dulcet tenor sang out again.

The beefy red Zora leapt down and landed impressively before me, standing slowly and grandly from the impact.... and it dawned on me.

“You’re Prince Sidon?” I yammered, my eyes bugging.

I mean.... the only other Zora Prince I’d ever known was Prince Ralis, and he was.... well kind of a shrimp. No pun intended and no offense implied.

This guy was.... well all the Zoras so far (the ones I could compare myself to on land anyway) had been taller than me. But Sidon was just huge!

What in the world did he need me for?

He wondered if I had a moment to talk, and he asked my name. When I told him Link, he raved with much fist-pumping of what a powerful name it was!

I must say, he did have quite a winning grin. And his musical theme was as light and determined as Sheena’s, from Tales of Symphonia. Definitely the same flavor, if not the same chord progression, with strong half-cadences prefaced by proper second-inversion tonic chords—most tenacious!

He told me Zora’s Domain was in great danger due to the ceaseless rainfall caused by the Divine Beast Vah Ruta. He had been looking for a great warrior of the Hylians to help him—he asked if I were of such kind among my people.

“Not particularly,” I said. I didn’t feel like a Hero.

“Oh don’t be so modest!” He told me he had been watching how I work, and he had great faith in me. I don’t see how he could have done, but.... he had seemed to be keeping a weather eye on all his surroundings. And he did seem to have many eyes and ears among his people, all out searching on his command.

Since I couldn’t swim up the river like he could, he showed me the road that would lead me to Zora’s Domain. He also warned me that there were many enemies upon it—enemies who used electricity. He supplied me with an elixir that would protect me somewhat from its effects, and we arranged to meet in Zora’s Domain....