I had been slowly putting the pieces of my life back together once I had returned to Orden Village. Me and Ilia have been catching up and I've started going with her to the Orden Springs to wash Epona.

I was sitting beside Ilia on the shore of the spring while Epona grazed nearby. We had goten permission from Ilia's father to have a picnic at the spring. It was warm and sunny with a small breeze drifting through the trees that ruffled my hair around my face.

"It's nice to be home and not constantly on the move," I had told Ilia as we were picking up the remains of our picnic lunch. I whistled for Epona and me and Ilia hopped aboard my horse and we made our way at a slow trot back into the village.

"That was really fun! We haven't had a picnic since we were little kids!" Ilia told me as the two of us entered the village and we hopped off of Epona and I led her by the rains to the stables for the afternoon.

We walked up to Ilia's house and climbed up the stares before removing our shoes and opening the door and entering the main entranceway. We entered the house and I shut the door behind us. When we entered the living room, we saw Ilia's father, Mayor Boe, sitting at the small wooden table that stood in the center of the room. He looked up from whatever he had been doing when we entered the room.

"You two had a good day I see," he said with a soft chuckle upon seeing how muddy our clothers were. "Oh and for Naru's sake! Why on earth are you two soaking wet? And how did you get so much mud in your hair?" He said, looking up at us both with a stern expression on his face and his arms crossed tightly over his chest as he continued to stare. I opened my mouth to speak up and try to explain what had happened but Ilia beat me to it. "We had a water fight and that's why we're all wet, father." She blinked quisicly up at her father when he wordlessly pointed to their mud-covered hair and dirt-stained faces.

"And what happened there?" Boe asked skeptically. "Oh, um, well you see… we were packing up the rest of our things and slipped and fell into a puddle of mud left by the recent rain we've been having lately." Ilia explained the whole story to her father all the while with a sheepish smile forming on her face as she spoke. "Well, it must have been some water fight you two girls had." He joked with a wide, teasing grin playing at the corners of his mouth and a mischievous gleem in his eyes. Seeing the look on his face made us burst out laughing for no reason whatsoever.

"You two better go and change into some dry clothes. Oh yeah, Ilia. Linkette, don't forget that tonight is the summer festival." Mayor Boe reminded us and we both nodded our heads in responce to his words before turning away from him and heading upstairs to change and prepare for the festival later tonight.


The moon was full and bright as it casted a Beautiful silvery glow on the village. The orange lights looked like little flames from above. I was perched in one of the trees overlooking the village and Ilia was sitting right beside me.

"Wow! The village looks so small from up here. The lights down below us look like little torches," Ilia remarked with wide eyes as she looked down upon the village. "It casts a lot of shadows," I whispered mostly to myself. Saying the words aloud got me thinking of the shadows that twilight form once dusk falls upon our world. I think of Midna, the little sassy and snarky imp who'd been cursed and kicked off of her thrown by a tyrannical wanna-be king who wished to take over the twilight realm.

She had regained her true form during mine and Zelda's fight with Ganondorf in the middle of. Hyrule Field. Throughout our many various adventures and random side quests/escapades all over the place, the two of us become really good friends. Yeah, I know, it's kinda funny upon thinking about how at first we didn't get along and with me being a wolf, who could only bark and growl and unable to speak normally, that made it a lot worse. But as time went on and as we got to know each other better, Midna began to loosen up a bit and started treating me like one would treat a sibling or best friend. And over the course of our long and somewhat dangerous at times gallivanting adventure through both Hyrule and the twilight realm, Midna became a friend that I cared for just as much as Ilia.