[Challenge #34: Exacerbate] The Legend of Zelda: 'A Moot Point'

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Title: 'A Moot Point'
Fandom: The Legend of Zelda (Spoilers for 'Breath of the Wild'))
Author: but_can_i_be_trusted
Rating: G
Word Count: 197
Characters/Pairings: Link
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to genprompt_bingo
Summary: Duty binds you to proceed, though you're not sure why.

For anyone who'd face the same situation, your position would seem an impossible one.

Awakening from a lengthy sleep, with no idea of who you even are, you're suddenly expected to take on a dangerous quest. To save a Princess you don't seem to be aware of, in a land that you can't remember.

Despite the unfamiliarity, though, you feel that the call is one that you can't resist. Duty binds you to proceed, though you're not sure why.

So you find yourself facing strange monsters, though you're barely aware of why you must defeat them. At first weaponless, you must use whatever you can find or loot.

Then, the Blood Moon rises. Exacerbating an already difficult situation, by reviving the very creatures that you've been slaying.

Not for the first time, and very likely not for the last, you wish that you were still asleep. The responsibility that's been placed on your shoulders is a terrible one.

Nevertheless, you press on. There's no alternative. You don't know quite who this Zelda is, and the land of Hyrule, as yet, has no meaning to you.

But their shared need of you renders your amnesia a moot point.