[Link nods slowly. Regain his lost time. Go back to where and when and who he was supposed to be. That was part of it anyway. The other part though, that's always been more important to him. They'd made a mistake, a big one, in trying to use the Sacred Realm against Ganondorf. By sending him back in time Zelda was asking him, just one more time, to do something that she could not. Stop their recklessness from hurting so many people. But that was hard to explain, and complicated, so after a few lackluster attempts to find the right words he just shrugs, then nods more confidently. ]

Yeah. But- well when I got back I had to go away again. Not time wise this time, like...on a horse.

[Now. How to explain Termina? No amount of thinking or remembering he's done has ever made the events there make all that much more sense, so mulling it over now would be pointless. Instead he just starts talking.]

And this town I got to was in trouble, but I only had three days, so I had to keep going back just a little bit until I figured everything out and stopped the moon from falling.

[...]

And then I've been here a whole year, and then some. So...I'm probably eleven.

[He knows that got confusing and disjointed at the end, and his antennae swivel a little with nerves. Talking so much, especially to strangers, was never very easy, but this lady was quiet and kind, so he manages a sheepish smile.]