Lolda was taking a bath when she heard footsteps running away from her. She didn't waste time putting on a towel and gave chase.

The footsteps ended around a corner and out onto a balcony. When the Princess of Eirswan inspected the balcony, she could see a really thin string attached to it, and looking down it she could see a figure ziplining away.

Whoever that is, they are a professional creeper Thought Lolda. She summoned her magic boomerang and used it as a handle.

Not everyday does a princess zipline butt-naked forty meters (120 feet) above the ground through the sky while chasing a pervert who spied on her. In fact, in Hyrule history, that is only the second time.

Lolda could see in the distance Hyrule castle town. Her landing zone seemed like she would be heading into a musty wooden building. It looked to be a bar of some sort.

As she came in for a landing, she smelled what seemed like the back of a pharmacy. Her instincts told her whatever was being cooked wasn't legal.

There were a bunch of people in there, overdosed on some hallucinogens. And when Lolda walked in with her hammer and a makeshift dress she had made out of fire, they barely noticed her. After all, they hallucinated every day, so to them, that sight was common. Lolda looked around the room but could not see anyone who looked like the hooded figure. She decided to leave before she became intoxicated by the smell, but she first decided to shut things down in this den.

Because people were watching the soldiers investigate a building which had recently been seen with flames billowing out from a window, noone noticed the two triforce bearers ride through the streets, even without their disguises. They took the secret warp in the temple of time back to Hyrule Castle. Now Princess Zelda looked around the courtyard.

Zelda knew she couldn't just sit around. After what had happened today, she didn't feel like visiting the person who might know about the masks, but she needed to do something.

Perhaps she ought to look for a new supplier of some of her ingredients? After all, she had seen one of the places she got items for potions being investigated. And they were so nice too thought Zelda.

She looked at Link. Maybe she could mess with him today.

Link was returning from Epona's stables when two arms grabbed his shoulders and started pushing him into the castle garden. "Wha-... Zelda?"

"Shh." She whispered. "Wer'e going to use the secret passageway today." A strong tone of mischief evident in her voice.

In the castle there was a secret tunnel leading through a large pillar. One could go from the garden to the upper level's quietly and discreetly, without having to meet anyone. Impa had told Zelda, that Zelda's of past (All royal Hylian girls were named Zelda) had often used these passages. Apparently when the magic restoration of the castle took place these parts had been returned as well.

They arrived in Zelda's dressing room. As soon as Link was in she locked the door. The usual magic spells were also casted. Link had no knowledge of this, but he knew something was up. Princess Zelda pulled a curtain forth and drew it around a corner.

"Now Link." She said with all the firmeness she could put in her voice. "Take your clothes off."

...

Lolda could sense a powerful force field around the upper levels of Hyrule castle. She couldn't think straight while she wondered what was going on behind the barrier, so she had decided to check on the Gerudo girl in the dungeon.

It was dark here, and unclean. A few bored guards had been posted to guard the few prisoners in the castle dungeons. On orders from her grace, all torture implements had been removed from the levels, and to never be used again. The prison cells contained scratched out drawings of prisoners from many different countries and beliefs. Lolda could see Manjis, Pentograms, Ahnks, sacred circles, and other drawings left by thousands of years of enemies of Hyrule.

The Gerudo girl sat in her own cell, to the right of a man covered in linen wraps. She barely noticed Lolda enter her room while the guards stood watch outside.

"So I understand you haven't been visited in a while." Said Lolda, in an attempt to get some responce out of the young lady. The desert woman looked away. "I thought you had almost forgotten about me. Princess Zelda certainly seems like she would do that."

"But why would you try to get revenge at her by kissing Link?" Asked Lolda. She had to find out the motives of people arond Link so that she could in turn learn more about her test subject.

"Why? Because that would be far more painful to Zelda to lose the thing she loved most. After all, she did that to me."

"Lose the thing she loves most? I don't understand what you mean."

Here in the prison, with no chance to escape either way, the lady of the dessert thought she might as well tell the strange cousin of Zelda. "Allow me to state it bluntly. The princess of Hyrule is infatuated with the green man."

Lolda had her guesses. But hearing it was the truth still stunned her. "So you followed her around, waiting for the chance to strike."

"Yes. I found it a while after you came here, when A love potion was stashed in an alchove. So I took the chance I had." So one mystery was solved, but then what about the first time Link was affected? "And what would you do with Link after fleeing with him?"

"I don't know. I'd probably just leave him in the hands of my kin." Somehow, Lolda found the Idea of the Hero of time living in the dessert funny. "So you would just abandon him, a helpless drunk under the effects of a love potion, with a few dried ass Gerudos! Have you no heart?"

The young lady was almost in tears. "I had to get my revenge somehow. Zelda killed the great Ganon."

"Great? He enslaved, tortured, and killed half of the people!" Lolda knew she could very well kick the prisoners face in. But perhaps the prisoner had already been punished.

"What!? My father would never do such terrible things. That must be someone else!" The girl broke down. She was crying, long after Lolda left the room to tell her grace what she had heard.