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Ilia barrelled into Link to hug him upon his return to Ordon Village. She swung around him. "I told you, Link. I'd never let you go again."

Link smiled in response. Then he noticed the girl's father walking up to him.

"I see big time Mr. Hero isn't too good to come home, ha ha ha.", the large man said. "What exactly are you planning to do with my daughter, hm?"

"Father!", Ilia mock exclaimed.

Link's eyes widen and he held out his hands in his own defense. Then he told them the news.

Ilia would have been outraged if she didn't consider what her outburst would mean to Link. "I can't believe you're going away again! After all we've...you've been through and we just got back for some quiet time together. How can you go on another adventure so soon?"

Bo tried to calm her down. "Now dear, remember he's a Hero now. Hero of Twilight, right my boy? That's a big time position. The biggest next to the princess herself maybe. And you see how busy being the mayor of this little village has made me. Give him some slack and maybe he'll take you to this Summit of Peace."

Ilia lit up, her reluctance forgotten. "Oh, really?"

Link hurriedly nodded his head.

Ilia nearly pranced. "Great! I'm glad it's a month away so I can get ready. I'll need new clothes, and that'll mean I'll have to sell more crops. But with the Summit coming, prices and demand should go up. Then I'll have to do something about my hair, and the way I look. There should be enough time for me to grow my hair and...well, and. And then...", she continued on.

The Mayor placed a hand on Link's shoulder and watched his daughter run off. "That Summit'll be more important to her than anyone else in the kingdom. And it's fortunate for the both of you that the princess hasn't claimed you for herself. After all, every other legend of a Hero has him either pining over or marrying a Hyrule. And it's not like you could slip it by her, as she performs every wedding in the kingdom herself."

Link remembered Zelda using the word suitor. Then his face fell. But that was something that could be addressed when he came back to Ordon. It's not like the princess would actually order him into her bed in disregard of Ilia, right?

2

At Telma's Bar, the think tank brain stormed.

"What do we actually know?", Telma began.

Shad spoke first. "Well, we know that the Gerudo Desert was once inhabited by the Gerudo. The Gerudo bore one male every hundred years. So their society nearly instantly became a harem of thieves. Then Gannondorf was born of that male, who actually wanted more power than being the biological 'king' of their nation. He managed to get the Triforce of Power, attacked the goddesses and was cast into the Twilight realm. The Gerudo, who now lacked the next generation to avoid extinction, stole all the dark magic they could and tried to bring him back from Twilight. They were punished by being sent to Twilight as well. Eventually the Gerudo e-or-devolved into the Twili, a race only Link and the princess have ever spoken with."

"So we don't know what these Twili are about. But we do know that they were theives that bore theives that eventually became civil warring, sell out to all that was unholy black magic demons?", Rusl commented.

"Ouch.", Auru responded.

"And biologically?", Ashei asked. "What are their powers? Are they as temperature sensitive as Zora or unkillable as Goron?"

"Link described a completely magical place.", Shad noted. "And their princess, Midna, felt she could stand a wielder of a triforce without one."

"So their all powerful, too.", Rusl interrupted. "Am I the only one thinking that openning up a doorway to the realm they closed off is stupid?"

"Now, Rusl.", Telma calmed. "If the Triforce of Wisdom is leading her, then there is at least the possibility that openning a line of communication with another race will benefit the people. Only if it's her own thinking do I doubt the child."

"I move we start the revolution to bring democracy to Hyrule now.", Ashei stated. "We leave the untoldly powerful ex-thief demons right where the goddesses and sages put them. We get to strike while the government is already harrassed with reconstruction and this Summit of Peace. Anybody second?"

Shad shook his head. "I don't. Yes, Hyrule does need to become a democracy. But the reconstruction affect the lives of so many citizens. I'm not going to pretend to have their best interests at heart by fighting the government in the capital city when over two-thirds of the population are rebuilding the houses they live in there."

"I agree with Shad.", Telma told them. "We can strike against Zelda at any time due to the passages we've set up from my bar to strategic locations in the castle. But reconstructing castle town comes first."

"I too am loathe to bring the Twili into our realm.", Auru offered. "And if we don't take her from the throne, we will have to follow her royal non-decree to do exactly that. However, the mirror has proven itself shatterable once. Only in legend has Castle Town been rebuilt after the devastation of binding Ganon. Call me coward, but I choose the easier path."

"That's three to two, at best.", Telma told Ashei and Rusl.

Ashei scoffed and turned her back on them. Rusl folded his arms over.

Then Ashei started speaking. "When Link comes back, it'll be three against three. I'll be sure to convince him of that.", she vowed.

"Is that why you wear those tight pants? To 'convince' Link?", Auru asked.

Ashei knocked him out of his chair and everyone teased her about her crush on a boy three quarters her age.