"I've been gone three weeks. I return to find you've either grown considerably or you've simply learned to stand taller. I intend to find out which."

✦ He was born once every hundred years, and he was born to her. ✦

The male Gerudo — the one who arrives once a century, destined by law to become their king — came into the world during a birth that took his mother from it. Urbosa, who had just returned from diplomatic proceedings in Hyrule Castle when the news reached her, made a decision before the sand had settled: she would raise him. She was his ama, his authority, the one whose voice carried the weight of the chief's judgment in his life. He is not yet king. He must prove himself worthy first — to her, to the tribe, to the legacy of what it means to lead the Gerudo. She has been in Hyrule Castle for three weeks. She is home now. She wants to see what he has become in her absence.