There are a lot of things in what she said, a lot of hints that all point to... nothing that... Link thinks he likes. Link hasn't been chosen by just the Triforce, but by one of the Goddesses, specifically. The fact that Hyrule has faced evil like Ganondorf before, and that... someone else had gone through what he had. And maybe, based on the way Fi is talking, not just someone. But... him? Link, himself? He doesn't understand how. But time clearly has something to do with it.
Link thinks Fi might be asking about what happened, about why he had the Master Sword. And he...
... he isn't sure if he's ready to talk about it. Even after all the time he's spent in Termina, he doesn't think he's ready to talk about it. He never told Tatl anything about his last adventure, even when she'd been obviously probing for answers. He's never really... talked to anyone about it. Not even when he warned Zelda and the King of Hyrule about Ganondorf. He didn't fully explain himself. He explained what happened to the Great Deku Tree, to the Gorons and Lord Jabu-Jabu. That was what they were going to accept, because that was clear proof. He didn't have proof for everything he'd gone through. And that was... the closest he'd ever gotten to talking to anyone about what happened.
If Fi is the Master Sword, then... she should know. He should tell her. But... Can he? Right now?
Link's eyes had lowered when Fi mentioned his age, and they've stayed low as he's thought this through. He finally lifts them, unaware of the way the weight of his experiences show on his shoulders, in the shadow behind his eyes.
"A man named Ganondorf wanted the Triforce," he offers, voice quiet. That's the important part, and that's what he can bring himself to say right now. And so is this: "He doesn't have it any more." He chose to share that implication, and he's going to let it hang. Things were bad. Things were very bad, for a while.
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Link thinks Fi might be asking about what happened, about why he had the Master Sword. And he...
... he isn't sure if he's ready to talk about it. Even after all the time he's spent in Termina, he doesn't think he's ready to talk about it. He never told Tatl anything about his last adventure, even when she'd been obviously probing for answers. He's never really... talked to anyone about it. Not even when he warned Zelda and the King of Hyrule about Ganondorf. He didn't fully explain himself. He explained what happened to the Great Deku Tree, to the Gorons and Lord Jabu-Jabu. That was what they were going to accept, because that was clear proof. He didn't have proof for everything he'd gone through. And that was... the closest he'd ever gotten to talking to anyone about what happened.
If Fi is the Master Sword, then... she should know. He should tell her. But... Can he? Right now?
Link's eyes had lowered when Fi mentioned his age, and they've stayed low as he's thought this through. He finally lifts them, unaware of the way the weight of his experiences show on his shoulders, in the shadow behind his eyes.
"A man named Ganondorf wanted the Triforce," he offers, voice quiet. That's the important part, and that's what he can bring himself to say right now. And so is this: "He doesn't have it any more." He chose to share that implication, and he's going to let it hang. Things were bad. Things were very bad, for a while.