"Link…"
"I know."
"Maybe you don't know."
"I know what you're going to_"
"How can you?!"
"You've said it before."
"Apparently it didn't sink in."
"Look I'm not going to_"
"Not what? Going to apologize?!"
"You seemed strangely fine with it when_"
"I was never fine with it! You were supposed to destroy that gate!" Zelda stood before him, with her hands clenched in fists and her arms stiff at her sides. They had walked in silence from the village to the Sealed Grounds, and were inside the Statue of the Goddess. "I asked you when things started to settle down that I wanted you to destroy the gate, and you didn't! For goddesses' sake! Everything that you risk to save me but you can't break a stupid gate that has no relevance in our lives! It almost destroyed the world! It almost had me killed!"
"I wanted to… I wanted to seal it, not break it. It helped me defeat Demise is what it did. If I hadn't made that gate, I wouldn't have been able to complete my trials and assemble the Triforce. Sure, it backfired when Ghirahim kidnapped you after I was exhausted beyond compare, but I saved you then. That gate was built for a reason, and it wasn't just to have my sword blessed. There was a greater destiny with that gate, I just know it, but now we'll never be able to preserve that destiny, and some future incarnation of me is going to die because he can't travel through time."
"That's why you didn't break it: to save… yourself?"
"No. Well, yeah, maybe that's why I didn't do it. I don't know. This is all confusing to me; doesn't it confuse you too?"
"It would've if I wasn't Hylia! I am literally two people in one body; don't you think I get confused sometimes?! It's absolutely ridiculous the things I can't distinguish between my life and Hylia's. However, one thing I did know is that the gate of time had to be destroyed."
"You don't know that for sure! Hylia may be part of you, but I'm sure there are parts of her memory that you don't know. We can't possibly know for sure what she had planned for that gate."
"But we can, because I asked her."
"What do you mean you asked her? Did you look in a mirror and reflect on it?"
"First: bad pun. Second: I asked her when I used the timeshift stone you left after visiting me."
"Wait… what? You traveled further back in time?"
"Yes. That's how I came back: Hylia sent me."
"…"
"Look, when I used the stone, it brought me back to the moment right after the battle with Demise. Hylia was in the temple, injured, with a bunch of the races from the surface. She seemed to tell them something, and then she asked me to do something for her. She told me that the two existing gates did need to be destroyed, but that I needed to make it possible for a future generation to make a new gate. So, your instinct was right, but you should've listened to me."
"Wait, Hylia wants you to make a new gate?"
"Not exactly, she just wants me to leave the instructions and the materials and seal them until the time is right."
"What materials? How in Din's fire is someone supposed to make a gate?"
"I couldn't tell you, she told me, but she told the part of me that isn't me."
"So she told herself how to make the new gate, is what you're saying."
"Yeah… I think."
"Well that's bloody confusing, and unnecessarily difficult for an immortal being that can travel through time."