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Link couldn’t help the huge grin on his face. The sight before him was just too precious for words, even the signed kind.
Sidon was holding a brand new Sheikah Slate in his hands, eyes the widest they could get and his mouth open in awe. His gills were fluttering rapidly in excitement, and even his tail was wagging back and forth like it just didn't know what to do with itself. He was so utterly flabbergasted that all of his princely manners had vanished completely, leaving him a gawking dork that Link wanted to cherish in his memories forever.
“I- really- for me?” Sidon stuttered, apparently unable to believe his luck and barely able to tear his eyes away from the device to look at Link in disbelief. “Shouldn’t… Shouldn’t the first one go to Queen Zelda, seeing how the original one was hers before you got it?”
Link shook his head, a smug grin on his lips.
‘She is too busy to make much use of it, so she can wait for the next one’, he signed, ‘Purah is making more now that she’s figured out how.’
Sidon nodded dumbly, glanced at his new Slate again, then finally broke into a huge smile and grabbed Link into a one-armed hug. Link laughed breathlessly, and patted Sidon’s bicep.
“Thank you! Thank you so very much!” Sidon exclaimed, nuzzling Link’s hair with his crest and mussing it halfway loose from its hair tie. “I will make use of this to the utmost of my ability!”
Link knew what would happen next, and waited for it with a small smile. Any moment now.
Sidon suddenly ceased his affections, freezing in place. Then he slowly pulled away from Link and gave him a sheepish look.
“It just occurred to me that I have no idea how to use this”, Sidon said with an awkward little chuckle. ”Do you suppose you could teach me?”
Link’s smile widened, and he brought his hands up to sign.
‘I don’t know’, he signed with a mischievous look, ‘I had to learn on my own and managed just fine.’
Sidon looked shocked for a moment, then caught on to Link’s expression. He chuckled again and shook his head exasperatedly.
“I seem to recall that you received instructions as well”, he said, “but I’ll bite. Would you, my most talented and incredible friend, please teach me?”
Link blushed at the compliments; he had only wanted a ‘please’ or just to see Sidon’s shocked face. But compliments were always nice too, so he wasn’t complaining. He nodded quickly before Sidon decided to lay it on even thicker, which he didn’t think he could handle as gracefully.
Sidon smiled again. “Splendid! May we begin right away, before my duties catch up to me?”
Right, he had another surprise for his friend. Link gave him an excited smile.
‘About that’, he signed, ‘I already asked your father the King before coming to see you, and he agreed to me taking you out on an adventure to unlock the most useful ability of the slate: the warping.’
Sidon gave him a blank look for a moment, before his face brightened in recognition.
“You mean when you appear in the shrine or disappear in a blue light!”
Link nodded. ‘Exactly. You need to register shrines and other warping points into your slate to be able to do the same. It’s very convenient when you need to get somewhere quickly.’
Sidon looked beside himself with anticipation.
“So we’re going out of the Domain to register the points? Father agreed? Are we… Are we leaving right away?”
The Zora was practically vibrating on the spot, waiting for Link’s confirmation.
Link nodded, which was the only thing he had the time to do before Sidon became a red blur of activity, frantically searching for things he wanted to take with him and asking Link for suggestions.
The Hylian could only laugh. This adventure was bound to be interesting and fun.