Shallan had led Link and Adolin to a structure at the top of Urithiru. It was something called an oathgate, and could teleport people to places, but only ones on Roshar.
Shallan stood before a strange mechanism in the wall, one that had clearly used to be hidden by vines.
She said,"I was going to take a team of Lightweavers to the current war location, to scout in hopes of finding Kaladin, but Gaz noticed this." She gestured to the mechanism. "It's an eleventh oathgate portal!"
Adoling asked,"Where does it lead?"
"That's the problem." Shallan sighed. "We don't know, and are too short handed to send anyone. I was lucky to be able to borrow my own lightweavers for the day, and that was only because Dalinor needed a scouting party anyway."
"How does this relate to Kaladin?"
"I'm not entirely sure, but it's certainly suspicious. Kaladin was in this oathgate when he went missing. And this is where we found you, Link, unconscious. I was hoping you might have further insight?"
"I think I remember Hyrule having something like oathgates, called sheikah towers. They let you teleport to the other towers and shrines," Link said.
Shallan asked,"Did two people ever swap places using one?"
"Not that I can remember. I think there was only one device that let you use the teleporter." Link wished he had more to offer, but he just couldn't remember. Not much more than flashes anyway.
Adolin said,"Actually, the oathgates are similar, in that you have to have a shardblade to activate them. It's possible that a mistake was made on our end, and somehow the stuff that lets the oathgates know where to go got mixed up. Right?"
Shallan shrugged. "I'm really not in charge of studying these things." Here she knocked on the wall. "But I wonder if this portal lets you teleport to other worlds, without traveling through shadesmar. Your people have the tech. Maybe all this is linked. I know you don't remember much, but what were you doing before you got knocked out?"
Link struggled to remember. The whole conversation, memories had been coming back to him, slowly. He had been in a battle. But no matter how he strained he couldn't remember more.
Adolin was talking to Shallan now, something about finding the person that had discovered Link. Adolin said 'healer,' and it all came rushing back.
Link was standing in a muddy field, surrounded by guardians. He had just taken down one of the machines, but they just kept coming. Zelda, the princess of the realm and his charge, was on the ground behind him, helpless. Her powers had never awakened. Link was her last defense. He held out the master sword, breathing hard amid the pouring rain. At that moment, he knew that he was going to die, but maybe Zelda would live. She would have to be enough to defeat Ganon. He stared down a guardian, and charged. A blast hit him in the shoulder, and he blacked out.
Even though he was unconscious, he could just barely hear someone. Zelda maybe? A feminine voice said,"Set him in the pool."
A different voice said,"Will it be enough to heal him?"
Zelda said, in a whisper,"It will have to be."
The memory faded out.
Link was sitting now, against the oathgate wall. As Link was waking up, he heard Shallan and Adolin debating whether to find a surgeon or not.
Link said,"I'm fine now."
Adolin said,"Thank goodness. I was about to get an Edgedancer. What happened?"
"I know where I was, before the swap. It's a place called the Shrine of Resurrection."