# Mirrors - Prologue

Author: aidan_kitten
Tags: Character Development, Emotion, Human-Only, Legend Of Zelda, M/other, No-Yiff, Plot Development, Young Romance

#1 of Mirrors

One of my best fanfics. This was co-written with SPark, who has posted it up in a few places. Cover art is by Tidekeeper.
The story is completely finished, I'll be posting a chapter at a time until it's all up.
The story itself is G-rated, there's an epilogue I may be posted with more intimate material.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The mirror had been a gift.&nbsp; Somebody, she couldn't even remember who, had thought that a princess should have a full-length mirror.&nbsp; So even though she was living in a hastily-repaired room in the town while work had only just begun on the new castle, she had a mirror in her room.&nbsp; There had been other gifts too, her people seemed to think she needed so very many things.&nbsp; Never mind that she had spent seven years in hiding.&nbsp; Seven years as a Sheikah, sleeping on a blanket on the ground as often as in a bed.&nbsp; Seven years training to fight, preparing for the day when she would aid the Hero of Time in his quest.&nbsp; Never mind that she hadn't had dresses or servants or any of the trappings of royalty since she was ten.&nbsp; She was a princess, so she must need, must want such things.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;A princess.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;She sighed.&nbsp; Standing in front of the mirror she removed the pink and gold dress.&nbsp; She set it gently on the bed.&nbsp; She removed the chemise she wore under it as well and set that next to the dress.&nbsp; She looked at the mirror again and frowned.&nbsp; Then she picked up the wrappings, taking them from the drawer where she'd set them aside when she first moved into this room.&nbsp; After all this time she could put them on with her eyes closed.&nbsp; Which she now did, avoiding looking at herself in the mirror.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;With arms and chest securely wrapped she looked at herself once again.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The bindings held a minor enchantment.&nbsp; Those who looked at her would see not a princess, but a male Sheikah.&nbsp; They would see her eyes as Sheikah red.&nbsp; They would see her shoulders as a little broader, her hips as a little narrower, her body that of a muscled young man. &nbsp;

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;But the enchantment didn't touch the eyes of the wearer, so when Zelda opened them and looked in the mirror once more she saw the truth.&nbsp; She was muscled, yes.&nbsp; She had earned her strength the hard way, not won it by some spell.&nbsp; But her shoulders were slender, her hips wide, and the bindings couldn't completely hide her chest.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Her eyes were still blue.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;She still looked like the princess, not the Sheikah.

&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;With a cry she punched the wall next to the mirror.&nbsp; It was all she could do to not hit the mirror itself, and shatter the image of the princess within it into a thousand pieces.

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/Vm265MMm
Part of the series Mirrors
Next: https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/758141-mirrors-chapter-1.md

