Wow, this was certainly interesting! Wonderfully well-written and engaging, you can certainly feel Ico's panic as all he wants to do is protect Yorda and escape the castle but he's just too exhausted. Poor boy. The hints to Shadow of the Colossus were fascinating as well. Him using the Colossi as a sort of curse word was an interesting little world-building tidbit that really gets me fascinated, and that whole "he was bearing Dormin's curse" line... I feel like there's a whole other story behind this oneshot. Awesome work.