Uma was quiet a moment, though the whispers came back, more subdued this time, and not as many. She studied him, looking for signs of any loss of clarity of mind, or traces of being deceived and knowing it and believing anyway out of desperate hope.
She saw none of those.
So she looked over at the queen- the queen! -and Link. The Hylian Champion of old! Although that, to her at least, explained how he'd gotten the Silent Nightshades- only a hero such as him could be able to go to the Lost Woods and come back out alive.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty," she said, "but I don't know what exactly's the normal thing we're supposed to do here, whether it's bowing or kneeling or anything of the sort. But I believe you. I believe Tokk, and I believe you. I think most of us here do whether we realize it yet or not. It's an incredible story, but we know the Calamity was real, it was only a century ago, human memory isn't that short. And we know something stopped it before it reached us. I'm just a simple doctor and midwife, but you have my thanks, and my respect. I hope that our little town will be as good to you as you have been to us, without us even knowing it."