For a moment he expected Navi to fly out of his hat at that touch. Even after all these same, muddled days alone, he still expected her to appear. He closed his eyes in a minute show of pain at her loss. He kept hoping to find her in the snowy fields as he traversed them.

Maybe now that Zelda was here, others would come. He could hope for that. She would be too small to use the network and tablets, wouldn't she...?

He opened his eyes and gave Zelda a small nod. I've been fine. Surviving, mostly. Going from place to place and trying to find the point of it all.

He'd died, once.

Lost his sense of touch for a while.

She didn't need to know that.

"You?"