Note: Takes place in the Twilight Princess universe.

Idea: Sheik is blind and a germaphobe.

Chapter 30 - Now has been freshly posted today.

Enjoy!

It was odd to see a Sheikah in a big city like Castle Town. If you ask anyone that lives around here, they'd tell you the race died out decades ago.

Yet...

There he was, looking around the stalls, socializing with the merchants, smiling so happily as if he had grown up among these people. A gods-damned jewel of a person, so rare a find, was talking to commoners. And I had been watching him blankly for twenty bloody minutes.

"Link." A foot at the back of my knee and I stumbled forward.

"What the hell?!" And turned to find a disguised Zelda standing right behind me. "Z- Melanie."

She swished her magically dyed black hair and a nose that was charmed to look tiny twitched. She honestly looked like a mouse come to life right now, but I knew the woman under that magic was regal and more of a panther. Sometimes she stalks me, I swear.

"I've been trying to get your attention for some time now." She glanced past me and studied the crowd. "What has your... attention... so..."

I bit my lip as I knew her eyes locked on the young man I had been watching.

"A Sheikah?" She grabbed my arm and began tugging me in the direction of the poor boy that was about to be kidnapped.

"Thank you, sir." The man that Zelda was probably going to attack turned in our direction, his one hand stretched out a little oddly before him at his side. I doubt Zelda noticed as she finally got us to her destination. The boy, cause now that I am getting a closer look at him I can tell he is quite young, paused and his hand twitched before he returned it to a more normal position. "Hello?"

His eyes...

My arm was released as the woman I follow like a dog lately reached forward to clasp the Sheikah's shoulders. Due to my adventuring, I could see his whole body tense for a split second and so I stepped forward on instinct.

Now I understood.

"Melanie, please let him go." Zelda's darker blue eyes flashed through the brown as they locked with mine. I narrowed mine when she refused and a moment later she was stepping back. The young male seemed to be breathing easier now. Perhaps there was more than I was picking up on, but for now I would work with what I had. "I apologize for my friend. She can be quite hands on."

"No need. I'm just a bit on edge. The marketplace here is a might bit more than I am used to." Like I thought, he didn't look up to meet my gaze. "As you are sure of, I am not from around here."

"If I may, would you join us for lunch. I'd love to know where you came from." Just like Zelda to use food to get what she wants.

The Sheikah smiled slightly. "I've no reason to refuse. But we can hardly have a civil conversation if we do not know what to call one another."

He moved swiftly forward, mouth close to Zelda's ear. If I had been any further away, I would have not heard the next words out of his mouth. "You may call me Sheik, Princess Zelda."

I'm going to post everything in my docs today and probably be done with writing fanfics. It was a lovely ride being here with everyone and I'll miss it, but I just don't have the drive or time to keep at it. I'd like to say I'll post once in a blue moon, but who knows if even that was happen. Sorry to those of you that were faithful fans of me to the end.

Goodbye, my lovelies.

~Shorty