[Link doesn't answer immediately, expression going slack as he processes the information. A seal - then this Ganondorf is from the time Zelda is from, where they succeeded.]
[This isn't the man who killed him.]
[But even that brief relief is little compensation against the rest of the story - a Hyrule without a hero, a Hyrule flooded under an ocean - almost automatically, he glances up at the water above their head, and blanches a little when he imagines the forest cut off from the sky.]
[And Ganondorf had been the one who had wanted to save it. Does that mean he's...]
[Right?]
Why - why wasn't there a hero? [he asks instead, so as not to focus on the uncomfortable realisation that he agrees with Ganondorf on something.]
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[This isn't the man who killed him.]
[But even that brief relief is little compensation against the rest of the story - a Hyrule without a hero, a Hyrule flooded under an ocean - almost automatically, he glances up at the water above their head, and blanches a little when he imagines the forest cut off from the sky.]
[And Ganondorf had been the one who had wanted to save it. Does that mean he's...]
[Right?]
Why - why wasn't there a hero? [he asks instead, so as not to focus on the uncomfortable realisation that he agrees with Ganondorf on something.]