-The three fragments lifted themselves into the air, dancing of their own accord before setting themselves into the brace and reuniting with their fourth sister. Immediately, the carvings began to glow, as did the chains that suspended the strange, dark monolith, until the iron links dissipated and the boulder fell to the ground. The mirror again behaved as a living thing, and tilted back to project the white glassy portal onto the stone.
Link gasped in awe, but Midna’s faint figure watched on in silence. She was eager to reach the end…
But no. First, she had to explain.
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It hurt, at first, knowing that Midna had used him in the beginning. He could now see that she had changed her mind, however. The Twilight Princess was as determined as him to save the world of light. Link trusted her, and he would help her. They would walk through the portal together to the world of Twilight with the Sages’ blessings, Zant would be defeated, and Midna, Zelda, and both worlds, Light and Shadow, would be restored.
Link turned his back on Arbiter’s Grounds, on Hyrule, and stepped boldly into the Mirror’s casting, through the portal, into the Twi-
His foot hit stones alive with lichen, and even blades of grass in between the cracks. The hero looked around in shock. This was not the realm of Twilight. There were no eerie cries of twilit beasts, nor the pervading red and yellow haze of the clouds; not even those black illusions of tiny shards in the air that seemed to spin up and away when you got near them were visible.
Instead, the heady smell of the forest filled his lungs as he looked around at the crumbling temple walls, massive oaks becoming one with the walls and the floors and the roof until it felt as if the room itself were alive.
Yet, the only sounds in the large room were the clink of his chain mail shirt when he shifted and the panicked beating of his own heart in his ears.
He looked over with wide sapphire eyes as his companion manifested next to him. She was apparently as confused as he, but still he had to ask. “Where are we, Midna?!”
