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It had taken five months for Lilia to fully recover from what she went through. Her fever took two weeks to break, her injuries had taken five weeks to heal the rest of the time was spent trying to get her eat and drink normally. Demise had stayed well away, he was trying to help a hero for once and scaring the living daylights out of her wasn't considered helping. He received news from Cauli at how she was recovering and improving, convincing her that he wasn't a bad guy wasn't going well so far.

The Demon King really wasn't surprised at that, she is mistreated by adult males for...what months? Weeks? He couldn't expect her to get over all that fear so soon.

Demise was watching the little girl at a distance right now. Her hair had grown out to her middle back with the help of a potion, her skin had gotten a healthy light tan, she wore a red short sleeve dress that hung just below her knees and had the normal flat slightly curved red shoes most Gerudo wore. She was hiding behind the corner of a building watching a couple of young girls play. She looked like she wanted to join them but she didn't, she only watched longingly.

Lilia sighed and ducked behind the wall, she slid down it and sat down pulling her legs up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. She looked up at the sky sadly, it was lonely but she didn't have the courage to talk to anyone but her auntie.

Lilia rubbed her arms a bit, she felt...strange. Ever since she had gotten here something felt like it was missing, all her things had burned up in the fire when the bad boys ruined her house and took her away, she couldn't have her mommy and daddy right now but...she didn't think that was it.

The little girl looked up feeling as though she was being watched. She jumped when she spotted the tall dark boy who had been outside the cage before she got here. He was scary...and really tall. Lilia quickly stood and ran back home. She didn't want to see the scary boy anymore.

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"Back so soon?" Cauli asked Lilia as she walked through the open front door. None of their homes had doors, it would get too hot for that.

Lilia nodded, she crawled up onto the cream colored soft couch and settled on it starting at the red carpet.

Cauli frowned. Lilia had recovered physically from the bad treatment but her mental state and emotions were still out of whack, she was only three, it was hard to help her when she didn't even really understand what was wrong.

"Lilia," Cauli started as she knelt down in front of the couch. "Can you tell me what's wrong?"

The little girl blinked trying to keep tears away. "No…I confused...Don't know what's wong."

The Gerudo woman had been worried about that, until she was older there was very little that could be done. "...Did you play with the other girls?" She asked trying to get to a brighter subject.

Lilia shook her head. "Too scared to talk to dem."

By the Goddess of Sand this was going to be hard, a very hard and long road but she and everyone else would be here for the poor girl. Cauli pulled Lilia into a gentle hug, the hug caused her to start crying and cling to her. It would take time...but she would get better.

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"Well what do we tell them? The teens are very confused and the children don't even understand what happened."

Demise gave a long suffering sigh in reply.

Cauli had managed to get Lilia to play with a couple of the other children, things had gone well and the small group became friends. Then he had to go and mess everything up by approaching them. He hadn't seen Lilia among them otherwise he would have kept walking. The girl had screamed as soon as she saw him then ran away.

The group of girls that made friends with her had no idea what happened. Not all the gerudo had been told what she had gone through after all, the teens were just a touch too young to know about that and the children? They might not understand and he didn't want to burden their minds with that.

"We'll just have to tell them some of the truth, not everything just enough so they can understand." He said after considering it for a few minutes.

"Alright..." His sister said rubbing the back if her head. "Do you think she'll ever get past this?"

Demise honestly wasn't sure. No hero had ever gone through what this one had, if she had been a little older he might be able to say she could do it but at such a young age? He just didn't know.

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Lilia was five now, she had overcome some of her shyness and was able to make more friends. She also helped her aunt out around the house, she helped their neighbors too and had earned some rupees. Lilia has given them to her auntie as she didn't know what to buy yet.

Right now she was helping her auntie prepare foods and sweets for the upcoming festival. They were grilling some meat and vegetable kabobs, well her auntie was doing the drilling Lilia was mixing two types of cream for a fruit salad. She wasn't allowed to use the grill or stove or be too close to any fire, she also wasn't allowed to use knives which was why she was on mixing duty.

'Females only cook, clean, take care of their children and husbands you should consider yourself lucky that you were chosen by the goddesses to be hero and won't have to do that! Now stop your crying!'

Lilia flinched at the memory dropping the whisk with a clutter.

Cauli heard the sound and looked over at Lilia. She had the same sad and frightened look she always got when she remembered something. "What was it this time Lilia?" She asked gently.

Lilia picked up the whisk again and poked at the large clumps of cream that refused to mix. "...I was told women only cook, clean, take of children and their husbands and I should be...happy I was chosen by the goddesses as hero as I didn't have to live that kind of life." She replied as she poked more clumps.

Cauli shook her head and looked up at the sky. How Hylian women put up with men was beyond her but then they grew up knowing their fate and accepted it, it made her glad to be a gerudo. "Lilia, women are not only good for all that I promise you. The king and his men merely think that way along with a good portion of Hylian males." She explained.

Lilia stopped poking the clumps and frowned at her auntie. "But...I'm Hylian…" She said confused.

"Yes you are dear but you aren't growing up like one. I'm raising you as Gerudo Lilia...in fact from what I know about your parents your mother was a working woman."

"Wha...really?!" She asked excited to hear about her parents. She didn't have clear memory of them...she only had the night she was taken away and that wasn't a good memory.

"Oh yes, she was a potter. She made very good money selling pots. Your father was a smith, while he mostly only sold weapons he did practice with them as well, your mother did too." Cauli was happy to tell the poor girl about her parents, it always brightened her up. She was...always sad. She had said it was because something was missing but she didn't know what.

"Did you know them?" Lilia asked as she went back to stirring.

"No. The goddesses sent Lord Ganon a vision of what happened, it's how he knew to save you." Cauli explained as she turned the kabobs over, she had to make several of these, it would be a long day.

"Oh…" Lilia had gotten better at dealing with Lord Ganon, she no longer screamed at the mere sight of him. Now she only hid against her side or behind the nearest person, object or building. Cauli often told her Lord Ganon wasn't a bad man, he would never harm her or allow her to be harmed. Hearing words and believing them were two very different things. "...Is he sad?" Lilia asked to her surprise.

"Because you're scared of him? No, dear he knows what happened to you."

"Not that auntie...he just looks sad sometimes when I look at him. I don't look like anyone he once knew do I?" Lilia asked pointing to herself.

"I...I honestly don't know." Cauli responded softly. Lord Ganon didn't really leave the desert, he also wasn't too interested in any of the women. Several of the gerudo had offered, he always politely declined. "Well we should finish up, the festival is only two days away, we have a lot of work to do."

"Okay auntie." They both went back to work. There was a lot of food and sweets to make for the festival, Lilia was glad it came every year and not only so often, she had been too shy and scared to go anywhere or talk to anyone for the longest time. She had missed a lot of parties and festivals, it wouldn't be happening anymore.

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The Harvest Festival was for thanking the Goddess of Sand for giving them good healthy crops and livestock. There were pretty red, purple and gold decorations, there was lots of food and sweets too! Lilia was very glad she had come this year. Everyone was playing games right now, soon they would all thank the goddess and then pray for another good year. Lilia wasn't sure if she believed in the Sand Goddess...she believed more in the Golden Three but she was going to be respectful and say thank you and pray with everyone.

"You don't have to force yourself." Lilia jumped and turned slightly to see Lord Ganon standing a few feet away from her. She relaxed a touch at his distance. "If you don't want to speak with the goddess then don't, if you don't believe you shouldn't force yourself." Demise had seen her expression as she looked at the temple for the Sand Goddess, the first had given the same look. Unbelieving but still respectful.

"B-but...I...I don't want to-to be…" She trailed off stuttering too much to speak.

"It isn't disrespectful little one, look at the other children." Demise said gesturing to the groups of Gerudo children around the plaza. Lilia looked around, none of the kids were near the temple. Only the adults and teens were, well some weren't she guessed they didn't believe. "You see? If you don't want to you don't have too, they aren't sure yet what to think and you believe in something else. There isn't anything wrong with that."

Lilia blinked up at him then nodded. "O-okay."

Demise gave her a single nod and turned to walk away when she called out to him. "Um…" He turned back to her. "Yes?"

Lilia shuffled a bit. "...Why...are you sad?" She asked softly.

The Demon King stared down at the little girl. "...Sad?" He repeated confused.

"You-you don't show it or anything!" She said quickly waving her hands in front of her. "I-I can just tell...it's like...your content or happy on..on the outside but...inside...you're crying."

Demise was speechless. How did she know that? He wouldn't say he was crying per say but sad...yes he could say that. "...I'll be alright Lilia, don't worry."

Lilia watched him walk away feeling a touch better about being around him but not by much. She decided to go find her auntie and help her set up their stand for food and sweets.

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Lilia had fun passing out the food and sweets she and her auntie made, watching the the performance for the history of the Goddess of Sand was interesting. The games and dancing around the fire as it got dark was a lot of fun. She avoided Lord Ganon still even if she was getting better and at being around him, he was still really scary to her.

Watching him with the other girls...seeing how careful he was when handling them made it hard for her to really see him as scary but...she just didn't have the courage to be too close to him or talk to him for a long time. The weird feeling of something missing came back causing her to rub her arms and frown.

"Are you cold, Lilia?" Cauli asked when she saw the girl rubbing her arms.

"No… the feeling is back." She replied rubbing her arms more...her hand was also starting to feel off. "I think I'll go home and sleep auntie, night."

"Good night dear sleep well."

Lilia walked away from the festival slowly now rubbing her left hand. Why did she feel so off? Was she getting sick? She didn't want to be sick...it meats she slept more and she had a strong chance of nightmares. The feeling got worse the more scared she felt, why was this happening?

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Link gazed down at Lilia watching her scratch at her hand in her sleep. She wasn't going to stop having those feelings unless she beat her fears. The triforce was trying to show itself but due to her lack of courage it couldn't, even he was forced away from her. He didn't understand what was happening with that, it was like she was rejecting his spirit...perhaps she was in a way. She couldn't over cover her fears, she wasn't even trying to really, this was going to hold her back for a while.

The first hero sighed heavily allowing himself to fade away which was easy considering she was rejecting him. He hoped things would change soon, he didn't like seeing any of his incarnates sad.