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Aug. 5th, 2004 12:06 pmShe saw little of him for the first fortnight and then none of him for a week after that. She breathed in relief when he rode out of the castle and shuddered in dismay when he returned. It was only a matter of time before he'd come to her again and Malon didn't know what to do when that moment arrived.
She had contemplated climbing to freedom by using her bedspreads as a rope and lowering herself through a window, but, she realized this on her third day, the Gerudo guards had no interest in keeping her prisoner; she could walk over the lowered drawbridge whenever she desired.
The discovery was unexpected and disconcerting. Why was she staying in the castle then, if not as a captive? Had Ganondorf expected her to be loyal to him? Was she supposed to wait for his call and do his bidding?
The Gerudos were no help. Malon knew very well that they could speak Hylian (she'd sold and bought horses from them herself!) but they stubbornly pretended that they couldn't understand her and ignored her clumsy attempts to converse in their tongue.
Their presence was puzzling as well. Why would Ganondorf take her as his mistress when he had an entire tribe of scantily clad women who worshiped him as a god?
The only conclusion that she could make was that Ganondorf was a strange bastard. She didn't understand why he had brought her, but she wasn't so daft that she couldn't see the opportunity with which she'd been presented. Now she, a farm girl with nothing but a decadent ranch to her name, would save Hyrule. As soon as he appeared in her chamber, she'd kill him.
She had contemplated climbing to freedom by using her bedspreads as a rope and lowering herself through a window, but, she realized this on her third day, the Gerudo guards had no interest in keeping her prisoner; she could walk over the lowered drawbridge whenever she desired.
The discovery was unexpected and disconcerting. Why was she staying in the castle then, if not as a captive? Had Ganondorf expected her to be loyal to him? Was she supposed to wait for his call and do his bidding?
The Gerudos were no help. Malon knew very well that they could speak Hylian (she'd sold and bought horses from them herself!) but they stubbornly pretended that they couldn't understand her and ignored her clumsy attempts to converse in their tongue.
Their presence was puzzling as well. Why would Ganondorf take her as his mistress when he had an entire tribe of scantily clad women who worshiped him as a god?
The only conclusion that she could make was that Ganondorf was a strange bastard. She didn't understand why he had brought her, but she wasn't so daft that she couldn't see the opportunity with which she'd been presented. Now she, a farm girl with nothing but a decadent ranch to her name, would save Hyrule. As soon as he appeared in her chamber, she'd kill him.
