Ivee had been listening sympathetically, ready to say something equally sympathetic, but the queen's last statement struck her as funny, and she snorted, choking on a laugh.
"That's a helluva way to put it," she said, "but you're not wrong. I doubt Link'd be all that worried about your safety when you're here in town and seeing Uma. He doesn't seem bothered leaving you here now, and he probably didn't think much about what you were going to do to fill the hours, if at all."
She put the last of the bowls on the drying rack, about to start on the cooking pots, and half turned to look at the queen. "Urbosa... the Gerudo Champion, right? You two were close?"