If I may make a small request, could you... not tell anyone what I have told and shown you, here? Whoever is keeping us here made the mistake of placing me in a room with the men. I would rather not... go through what has happened before a second time...

[ Shock, judgement, disdain for what she WAS. She couldn't take it. Her very feelings had brought her all the way to this sort of behavior, and it had become second nature to continue this. A habit, if you would. A fear that controlled her enough to even make her constantly vigilant with lowering her voice, behaving as close to a man as possible, and hiding all evidence. Cutting her hair, piercing her ears, flattening her chest--all of this was her way of becoming what she thought others wanted out of the Hero of Time.

Heck, now that she's not hiding, it is plain and easy to see just how feminine she truly is, down to her actual voice. ]

I... I'm truly sorry for burdening you with this, but I felt it unfair to continue lying to you when you'd been truthful to me. But as unfair as it may seem, I have a second request I must ask of you as a friend, Princess--no, Zelda.