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Gifts. Link might be amenable to a small gathering of close friends, but I think a large party in his honor would be too much for him.

But I am at a loss for what one is supposed to get for one's [ a long pause ] person one is courting.

hold up whatchu say?
aint the two of you just boyfriend and girlfriend?

[Why's it got to be so complicated?]

To be honest, I don't really know. We haven't exactly applied any labels to each other or described what our relationship is now.

[ Everything is more complicated when you're dating a princess. Especially one with a habit of overthinking everything. ]

[Huh, okay... But that's Link and Zelda's business so Beat won't pry more than he has to.]

aight but even if you guys aint figured things out yet i dont think its really a big deal whatchu get him
as long as its something that from you it dont really matter right?

[ Please pry, Zelda is so confused... Can a princess be "just" a girlfriend or does she have to be something more? ]

Isn't that exactly why it should be more special? Because it will be from me.

[Isn't that what he just said?]

aight you know what
hit me hairtie
whatchu got that you think aint special enough

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[ Well yeah but Zelda can't just accept that without analyzing it to death. That would be too easy and if it's too easy then she must be doing it wrong. ]

Well, at first I thought I would buy him some new cookware that I saw in a shop, but that feels too impersonal. And then I thought about making something for him, but I don't have enough time to sew anything, not to mention I already commissioned a new Champions tunic for him for ~~Godde~~ Christmas.

what about something that means something to just the two of ya
like

[A pause as he thinks about it for a moment. He might have to use an example just to help Zelda out a little.]

like i got my girl a bracelet with a paper crane on it for Christmas
back when the two of us met we was chasing a bunch of paper cranes after they was getting blown round in the wind
it got stuck in a tree and we hadta get it down and everything
but once we got it we gave it back to this old lady who was making a hundred of them cranes
it aint much but it a reminder of back then you know

[It's a little embarrassing to talk about but he hopes that it gives her a better idea of what he's trying to say.]

im sure you and link got a whole buncha those too

That's a very clever idea, actually.

[ It gets the wheels spinning in her mind. She and Link have no shortages of experiences together that Zelda could draw from to great some kind of memento like this. ]

I didn't know you were seeing someone, Beat.

~~it is?~~

[That's scratched out SO FAST and replaced with:] course it is yo!

[Then there's a bit of a pause. Beat had his reasons for not mentioning it outright to many people despite wanting to. In fact, he wanted to tell everyone about his girlfriend and about how cool and cute she is even if she was a little bit of a gremlin. Hell, he would announce it to all of Reverein if he could.

Considering how Futaba was about going outside and how it was hard to deal with people personally, he'd been mostly quiet about their relationship. But this was Link's own... whatever they were he was talking to though. So he felt he could trust her by extension of Link.]

yeah me and shortys been dating for a little bit
least a coupla months now

[ There's just something delightful about dating someone who is something of a gremlin, isn't it? They're kind of a weirdo, but they're your weirdo. Zelda knows that feeling.

To an extent, Beat and Futaba's secret is safe, because Zelda has no clue who "Shorty" is. She's going to need to start making notes on which nicknames go with which dreamer. ]

Congratulations. I wish you both the utmost happiness together.

Ironically, Link and I have been [ Dating? Courting? Something else?? ] together about that same length of time now.

[ She counts the months on her fingers, then pauses. Is she supposed to start counting from when they kissed before she left or when they talked after she came back? ] Give or take three weeks.

aint long enough for the two of ya if ya ask me
you and link knew each other back home AND here
i woulda been rooting for the two of ya from the start

[Even if he was teasing, there is some truth in what he says. He was rooting for his friends back home too when they said they would meet at Hachiko after the Reaper's Game, after everything they'd gone through. It may not have happened immediately due to circumstance but when it did, he was right there cheering by the sidelines for the both of them.]

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