It always comes to that, doesn't it? Still, she was expecting it, as was Sheik, so it's easy enough to explain. "Of a sort. The form you see as Sheik - that is still my body, it merely happens to resemble Sheik's. But Sheik himself is real enough - I suppose the best way to explain the relationship is as a symbiotic one. He has protected me for seven long years throughout the current occupation of Hyrule."

She takes a breath, folding her hands in her lap and dearly wishing for skirts to bunch up in her hands.

"The reason I have needed protection for the past seven years," she continues quietly, "Is the reason I have come to you today."