Author's Note: LOL, sorry for the gigantic cliffhangers. Here's Link's POV—forgive me if it sucks, I like Midna's POV better—and remember to review! By the way, thank you, Kiba, for beta-ing! :)

Midna was already climbing the ladder two steps at a time with me close behind.

Kulak was looking around, frantic, for some sign of attack. "Stay here," I heard Midna say.

I grabbed my sword and bolted out the door in pursuit of Midna. When I slammed it shut behind me, I heard something crack. I didn't turn to look.

After ascertaining nothing was wrong near by, we headed to the Ordon Spring vicinity. Midna, still in front of me by a few feet, stopped abruptly, and I crashed into her back, nearly chopping myself in two with her drawn sword.

"We just chopped down a tree," Sheik explained. "You haven't heard that sound before?" Her snow-covered eyebrow rose.

"What, a tree falling? No, I have not heard that before. "I'll tell you what I have heard before: a human neck breaking." Midna snapped. Sheik smiled and I shook my head.

Sheik didn't kill Zelda. Even if she had, it wouldn't have made sense. I killed Ganondorf and I didn't get the Triforce of Power. But Zelda had shared a part of Midna—they were like sisters, and to her, it made perfect sense to blame Sheik. After all, we didn't know whose blood she had on her. Maybe it was a planned assassination, for all we know, but that wouldn't make sense. So maybe she hadn't killed Zelda yet, but I still didn't trust her. She was too odd with her blue suit with strange markings.

Éléazar, working on chopping the freshly fallen tree into slender pieces of wood, stopped and rested on his crutch. "Sorry for waking you guys. This tree is way heavier than it looks, but we didn't know where it would fall. So we just ran when it fell. There's a dent in the ground now. Again, sorry," he panted.

"It's alright," I responded. Something made me feel suddenly uneasy—Sheik was watching me carefully.

Midna turned on her heel and started to walk away. "Wait. Aren't you helping? We're already awake, Midna. And it's going to storm in about an hour," I said, glancing at the ominous sky. She turned and shot a glare at me.

"Come inside, Link; I need to talk to you," Midna said, in a strangely quiet tone. I rolled my eyes and followed her.

The ladder was slick with ice. My hand slipped and Midna caught me. Surprising really, she didn't look all that strong, but I quickly felt bad for thinking as much. I warned her about how slippery the ladder was. She didn't answer but went up more carefully than I had.

I groaned loudly. "Great."

"What?"

"Look at my door," I pointed to the giant crack in the middle of it. "How am I going to fix that when we can't even leave Ordon?" I groaned again.

"Well, since it's broken, we'll have to make do with an alternative. Do you have an animal skin or large chunk of wood?"

"I guess I could use some of the wood they chopped, but I'm not sure if they want us to. I mean, they did spend all night on that tree."

"Does it matter? We'll freeze to death otherwise, and I really don't think Éléazar wants to freeze," Midna snorted. "Do you want to break it down, or do you want me to?"

"I'll do it. It's my door, after all," I responded. She stepped aside to let me kick it several times, to no avail. Midna sighed and gently pushed me away from the door.

"Cross your fingers—I'm breaking down the door Twili style," She winked at me.

"Midna, that's not a good—"

A purple energy blast hurled at the already broken door and smashed it into three pieces. Luckily, nothing else was destroyed indoors.

Once indoors, she quickly threw the broken pieces out the doorway and hurriedly ran to the basement. "Oh, get up. It was just a tree they were working on falling down," Midna rebuked. Kulak emerged with Midna following, a large goose down blanket in hand.

"What happened to the door?" Kulak asked. I opened my mouth to tell him, but Midna interrupted.

"Life. Evolution. That kind of stuff," Midna smiled at him. Her mood swings were understandable, but scary. "Have any nails? We need to keep the snow out."

"With a blanket?"

"Works just as well as a door. We just have to make it stay there."

I walked to the fireplace and pulled out two knives from the proper rack. "Hold it right there, Midna," I said as I stabbed the knife into the corner of the blanket and into the wall. I did the same with the other one.

"Now that that's solved. Kulak, please check on Link's horse and make sure it's not dead," Midna motioned for him to go outside. "Oh, right. Her name's…Epona?" She looked at me for confirmation. I nodded. She smiled at me and I mouthed, "The horse is at the ranch, with the goats." She mouthed back, "I know."

As soon as Kulak cleared the door, Midna turned to face me, and plopped down on the floor in front of the fireplace. "Link, where is she going to sleep? What's she going to eat? And why would I want to help her make some useless wall?"

"Sheik can sleep downstairs with the rest of us, or up here so she doesn't bother you. She can eat what we eat. Unless that bothers you, as well," I added.

"It does bother me. Link, what if she is Zelda's murderer? And what if she wants to hurt us—hurt you? You don't understand what that Triforce means. It's a magnet for danger, Link. I know it all too well," Midna murmured. She brushed her bangs out of her face and traced the outline of a brown, diamond shaped marking. I recalled the first time I saw her; she was wearing her crown, and I thought the marking was part of it. Now I realized it was part of her.

"This is a marking unique to the three rulers of the Twilight Realm. Like the Triforce, there are only three alive at any one time. Anyway, Kulak, Jauli, and I have them. It's odd that we all were elected as rulers, but who knows, maybe we were born and the marking—called the Qui—maybe it's passed down through blood. Perhaps in time, our children's children will also have it.

"I have so many stories about how people tried to kill me, kill Kulak. Not many that I remember, only stories about stories. My mother told me everything, like she knew she would die only months later…" She trailed off and then started again. "But you didn't have that, I don't think. Who knows when it's your turn to be killed? Maybe it'll be you next.

"You can't forget that you have that Triforce because there are people that will kill you if they thought they would get that power. Don't forget that," Midna finished. She rubbed her temples.

"Thank you."

"Why?" She asked.

"You worry about me. I thought I was the only one who worried here," I said.

She smiled. "Well, it's most likely storming now. Let's get everyone inside."

We opened our makeshift door to a blizzard. Kulak, Sheik, and Éléazar had gotten to the ladder by the time our eyes adjusted to the flurry of white.

"I told you I could make a wall within a day," Sheik said. She pointed to four huge logs pointed upwards by the entrance to Ordon and my house. In between the second and third log there was a huge block of wood. "We couldn't make a door," she explained.

I shook my head and ducked back inside.

"Where is that horse?" Kulak asked, brushing off snow. His blue skin and the white of the snow made him look unhealthy, but I knew he was fine.

"I don't know, maybe it died?" Midna chuckled to herself and Kulak glared at her, and then rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, maybe it did," he agreed halfheartedly.

It was altogether difficult to squeeze so many people into my house. Luckily, no one complained about sleeping on the floor and there were only two death threats exchanged between Sheik and Midna. Midna, Kulak and I all slept on the bottom floor. Sheik agreed to sleep in front of the door and Éléazar slept on the mattress in the loft. I didn't understand his choice—it would be cold, maybe even colder than Sheik's sleeping area. Maybe he was distrustful of Sheik and wanted to

keep an eye on her.

In the night, Midna mumbled my name several times and reached out for someone. Once she shrieked, waking me up. No one else stirred. I tried to ask her what she was dreaming of, but she just said that it was, "unimportant".

I'm very happy with this story so far and I really love having such great reviewers. Thanks, everyone! Here's a poll (vote carefully-this one may influence the entire story!):

When should Jauli's warriors come to Ordon Province?

A: As soon as possible!

B: A few chapters more.

C: Never! Leave Midna and Link alone for once!

What was Midna dreaming about? (Non-Multiple Choice)

Why is Éléazar sleeping in the loft instead of the warmer basement?

A: He's worried Sheik is an assassin.

B: He's madly in love with her!

C: I don't know, is it really important?