<span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">Lucien arched a brow at her as she shot him a look that somewhere between excitement and smugness before glancing over at the sword her eyes had immediately zeroed in on.  From what he could see the sword appeared well-made, though without drawing it he couldn't be completely certain.  Zelda had mentioned hearing music before, some kind of singing, but he'd failed to hear it himself.  He knew the line of queens was predisposed to divine power, being the descendants of the goddess Hylia, but it was hard to take such things seriously sometimes.<br/>
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"Uh...sorry, your highness," The young man corrected himself nervously, though the princess didn't appear overly upset about it.  After introducing himself as Link, he glanced curiously at his sword before paling a bit, "I'm so sorry, is it yours?  It was just sitting out in the woods at this spring and I thought maybe I could use it for a bit, but then I thought maybe no one would miss it...-"<br/>
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"Boy," Lucien said, cutting Link off in his stammering attempt to explain itself, "Gather your thoughts and speak clearly.  You are not in trouble for stealing, but Her Highness does not exaggerate when she says the road to find you has been long."<br/>
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Momentarily relieved, Link collected himself and explained.  "I come from a village in the Southern Faron region called Ordon.  It was attacked, though, monsters came out of nowhere.  We barely had time to react before we were overrun and I was told to run.  I didn’t want to, but there wasn’t anything I could do.  I ran for the woods with a few of the kids…” he downcast his eyes, “We got ambushed, though.  I was the only one who made it, but only by sheer luck.  I slipped on a rock and tumbled down a hill before dropping into some kind of freshwater spring…”  He shook his head, which was a mistake that sent him into a dizzy spell, as he said, “I don’t even know how to explain what happened after.  You probably wouldn’t even believe me.”</span></span>