As the last mirror shard hit the ground a resounding echo filled Link's ears. What...what had just happened? Had she... really...broke the only connection between their worlds? How could she? Midna...his best friend... his only companion. All the help he'd given her and...and... he finally got to see who she truly was... her stunning beauty... and she left him. She left... Left him alone. Alone.
Alone. So alone.
Midna...
...Midna...
He couldn't breathe. His insides were being twisted into knots. Her name on his trembling lips, whispered so softly only his ears could hear. But he couldn't breathe. Who would ever hear his words if he couldn't breathe? His chest hurt. His throat burned. He couldn't see through the tears in his eyes. So much pain. He couldn't stand it. He couldn't stand. He sunk to his knees, digging into the shards of the broken mirror of twilight. He couldn't feel it though. He felt numb. He felt numb yet so full of pain. How was it possible to feel both? How was it possible that she was gone? He wrapped his arms around himself, as if trying to hold himself together. He had to, or he would fall apart. Crumble. He was already losing his lungs, he was certain. They couldn't be all there. Turned to stone and crumbling. They'd half crumbled already because there wasn't enough room for air in there. He was gasping for it. For breath. A horrible rasping, gulping sound. He couldn't seem to draw enough air in. There was so much constriction. He could taste blood in his mouth. It must be his own blood. He really was crumbling. Shattering, just like the mirror. Maybe if he just let himself shatter, he could go where she was, be with her. Midna. Everything was fading to black, and he thought he could hear her calling his name.
"Link!"
He felt her touch and relief came over him. To shatter like the mirror was to be with her. They could still be together. She was so beautiful.
Zelda watched the mirror shatter and solace covered her like a warm blanket. To shatter the mirror was to prevent such horror from happening to the kingdom again. Midna had been brave. She'd made a tough decision, but in the end, Zelda knew, it had been the right decision. For both of their realms. Midna would go home, to rule her kingdom in peace, finally, and Zelda, she would return Hyrule to the way it once was. She smiled to herself and bent down to pick up a tiny piece of the shattered mirror. Folding her hands around it, she prayed to the goddesses for peace to be upon both of their kingdoms. And for brave Midna to be happy in her true form again.
She couldn't pray for long, however. She was distracted by an odd choking noise coming from her right. Opening her eyes, she looked toward the sound and saw Link, crumpled on the ground. Goddesses he was hurt! Of course he was hurt! No human could have possibly fought Ganondorf- so strong and so powerful and not sustain serious injuries. Zelda cursed herself for being ignorant of his needs and rushed to his side.
"Link!" she called. "Are you alright? What hurts?" She touched his shoulder gently and his gasping lessened. She withdrew her hand with shock. She hadn't expected him to be so tense. He was surely in a great deal of pain.
She stood, with strict determination on her face, prayed to the Goddesses and quickly transported Link and herself to the best doctor she knew in the kingdom. Not the lazy, grumpy doctor in castle town, no, Link needed serious help. She transported him to Renado of Kakariko village.