The Legend of Midna: Shadow Falls
Chapter Three
"We need to rebuild the Floating City."
"What good is the floating city if the surface isn't rebuilt?"
"How do we know the surface is even still there? I say the Floating City."
And so it continued for hours. The council chamber was a cacophony of bickering chancellors. Little progress had been made towards rebuilding the Twilight Realm since Zant had been destroyed because no one could agree what direction to take.
"Confound it all!" cried High Chancellor Patar. Why is the princess not here…
"Come in," said Princess Midna from inside her private quarters. A single sol lit the room, and had it not been there the room would have been completely black. The outside luminescence would never have made it through the thick black curtains she had hung.
"Your Highness, permission to speak freely."
"Permission granted, Patar. What do you want?"
"Why have you not been coming to the council meetings?" he began. Although he was old, Patar was still one of the tallest Twili, and so had to crane his neck to keep from bumping his head on the doorframe as he entered the room. "The council is practically in ruins. No one can make up their minds and I'm only one man."
"Well, that's politics, isn't it," said Midna, with more of a bite to her normally playfully sarcastic tone.
"Your Highness, I'm worried about you, personally. I don't think the other chancellors are, but I am. You aren't the Midna I knew before the whole Zant fiasco."
"Yeah, well…I guess my heart just isn't in it anymore." Honestly, it wasn't. Midna couldn't have cared less what the council did.
"Well, Your Highness, I hope it gets back in it. You are the princess. We need you to act like one, and not just the council. The whole realm does." With that, Patar turned on his heel and strode out of the room, subsequently cracking his head on the doorframe.
"He just doesn't get it that I just don't care, does he? I wish they'd just make him king or do something…hey, wait!" She ran after Patar, who had only made halfway down the hall. "Patar, come back here. I need to talk to you."
"Certainly, Your Highness. Um, permission to speak freely?"
"Permission always granted, Patar," she said, and led him back into her private quarters.
"Now tell me, what's on your mind, Princess?" he said as he sat down next to her. He had known Midna her entire life, and after the death of her parents, attempted to act as her father figure while simultaneously acting as her main advisor.
"Well, you wanted to know why I don't come to the council meetings anymore. Well the truth is what I already said. My heart isn't in it anymore. It's…somewhere else." She stared off towards the window, like she was trying to see through the curtain she'd put up.
"Yes, you did say that. Now, um…where might that be?" He asked.
"It's…let's say it's with the wolves…oh, why should I even bother trying to hide it. It's with Link, in the world of Light."
"This Link, you say…you love him." It was not a question, more of a reaffirmation of what the princess had told him.
"Yes, more than anything…I would give anything to see him again, but there's no way. The Mirror of Twilight is shattered. There's no way back to the Light world."
"Is that so?" he said, as an impish grin spread across his face.
"What do you mean? What do you know that you aren't telling me, Patar?"
"Well, there is a way," he began, unsure if he really tell her or not. "Honestly, though, it's very unlikely it would work."
"What is it? Tell me! One chance in infinity is better than none. TELL ME!" she shouted as she jumped to her feet.
"Well, a portal to the Light world can be created…to any world, really…but you see, it requires the efforts of two people, one on either side of the barrier. If there were someone on the other side of the barrier, in the world of Light, that could work in tandem with you, a hole could be torn in the fabric of space and create a new door between the world of Light and the Twilight realm. Of course, it would be impossible because there is no way to contact anyone in the world of Light."
"Is that so?" questioned Midna. It did sound impossible, because as he said, there was no way to contact anyone in the Light world, unless….A familiar impish grin of her own spread across her face as she said, "I wouldn't be so sure of that."
There was someone she could contact in the world of Light, and it could not have worked out more perfectly: Zelda.
