Hilda lay asleep on her bed, having gotten up and changed into her night clothing before immediately flopping back down onto her bed and falling asleep.

Her staff lay beside her on the ground, as it let off a flickering rainbow glow, dimmer than before, but there nonetheless.

The entire staff suddenly went dark, before glowing even brighter when a tendril of magic began spiraling from the tip, crackling with fire, as it wound up the bed towards Hilda's hand and began seeping into her skin, until her skin looked its normal pale color.

Hilda absentmindedly scratched the palm of her hand before turning over in her bed, away from the now teal glow of her staff.

                                          ~~~

Ravio soon arrived at the Servants' Quarters once again, and while the hallway was still empty, Ravio could hear snoring or low murmurs as the servants were settling down for the night.

While Hilda had decreed that all in the castle were free to leave as they please, all of the servants decided to stay behind and help around the castle, as they had never known anything else, and were still terrified about what lay outside the castle walls, and Ravio couldn't blame them.

While most of the monsters had been wiped out when the sun first showed its rays, vaporizing most of the monsters that could only live in darkness, there was still the problem of the criminals who were still living in Thieves' Town.

Ravio stopped outside of the door that led into his and his mother's room, and slowly raised his hand to knock on the door.

He knocked once, and his mother opened the door a few moments later, delighted to see her son standing outside the door.

"Ravio, I was wondering when you'd return, or if you were just going to spend the night with the Princess." Myra said, chuckling as her son's face turned red.

"Mom! You can't just say things like that so loudly!" Ravio said as Myra laughed while leading her son into the room.

"Oh, you know I'm just teasing, Ravio. Besides, everyone here knows what happened between you and her before you left." She said, closing the door behind while Ravio looked around the small room.

It looked exactly the same, except his bed had been neatly made, and his tunic lay folded on top of the pillow.

"You kept my tunic? I thought you would've thrown it away by now." Ravio asked, and Myra shook her head, smiling sadly.

"I couldn't throw away the last thing I had besides memories that belonged to my only son. I knew that one day, you would return home, and that if you wanted to throw it away, you would do it yourself." She said, and Ravio looked at the clothes that lay there, mocking him.

They were clothes that marked him as a servant, as the property of the Royal Family of Lorule, that wouldn't allow him to command any respect from anyone, except his fellow servants, and Hilda.

Hilda had seen him in that tunic and decided he had been the one that she could trust with her fears and worries, to fight by her side, and be there with her through it all.

Now, after he had betrayed her and left her behind, even if it was to save her, broke that trust that she held towards him, and he wondered if she would ever trust him again.

Ravio sat down on the bed and picked up the tunic, examining it, before looking down at his robes.

"Mom, would you mind if I made a few changes to Dad's robes?"

~~~

The next morning, Hilda awoke to sunlight hitting her face once again, and she knew that if she opened her eyes, they would hurt immensely, so she pulled her pillow out from under her head and covered her face before standing.

She moved out of the way of direct sunlight, and as soon as her left hand went through the light, she felt a slight twinge of pain, as if her own body was trying to get away from the burning light.

Hilda held her palm up and examined it, and even though it looked the same as it did before she had gone to sleep, it felt...off.

She looked down to see her staff still on the floor, glowing with a slight teal color, the rainbow flickering having completely ceased.

"Maybe Yuga's magic has finally finished assimilating with my staff, but I should probably keep it on me in case it starts acting up." She thought as she picked up her staff, leaning it against the wall, when a knock sounded at her door.

"Come in." Hilda called out, and Celestia, her handmaiden, stepped through the door, a tray in her hand holding Hilda's breakfast.

"Good morning, Princess. How have you been sleeping with the sunlight coming through the window in the morning?" Celestia asked, and Hilda groaned.

"I may need to find curtains for this room, my eyes are quite adjusted to the sunlight yet, it's been hurting my eyes even when they are closed." She said, and Celestia chuckled as she set the tray down on Hilda's vanity.

"It will take a while for your eyes to adjust to the sunlight. If you're leaving the castle today, I'd suggest completely covering your eyes and having someone else guide you to where you are going. Is there anyone you would like me to fetch for you?" She asked, and Hilda nodded.

"Ravio returned from Hyrule two days ago. Could you tell him to come up here as soon as possible?" She asked, and Celestia smiled and nodded.

"Of course, I'll be sure to send him up right away, and I shall see if I can find any curtains for your windows, Princess."

Celestia curtsied to Hilda, before walking out of the room, leaving the Princess alone in her room and in her thoughts once again.

Hilda sighed as she sat down at her vanity and began eating her food, though she noticed it was slightly sweeter than usual.

"Perhaps now that we can leave the castle, the servants feel more comfortable using more ingredients now that we can grow new ones faster." She thought to herself, as she remembered the old methods the servants used to grow food so they wouldn't all starve within the castle.

One room in the castle that had miraculously not crumbled and fallen to the abyss was a room that held a fraction of the power of the sun that was created by magic, so whenever it wasn't possible to leave the castle, the Royal Family would still be able to enjoy themselves in the sun if needed.

However, after the Triforce had been destroyed, the Royal Family decreed it would be used as a garden area to grow food so the residents within the castle wouldn't starve to death.

Hilda had attempted to strengthen the room with her magic, but because her magic was dark and corrupted, it was almost instantly vaporized by the purifying rays of the magic sun.

Since then, Hilda had left the servants to tend to the garden and make sure that everyone in the castle had enough food, while she honed her magic for combat to fend off any evil entities who would try and break into the castle, like the monster assassin who had managed to get inside the castle and kill her mother so many years ago.

Now that natural sunlight could be used, once Hilda repaired the castle, she would have the servants who work in the garden to begin working in the gardens she was hoping to have planted, as well repairing the land to have it become fertile once again, so the citizens who didn't live in Lorule Castle would be able to grow their own food as well.

Hilda would have loved to have been able to have livestock as well in Lorule, as she had never tried meat before, and now that Lorule's corruption wouldn't cause livestock to mutate into monsters, Lorule would be able to have farms.

However, the only place that she would be able to possibly get livestock from would be Hyrule, and that would involve her speaking with Princess Zelda and possibly her entire court, all of whom were most likely not happy with her.

Hilda wasn't even sure if Zelda would even be willing to speak with her after everything that happened.

While Ravio was correct that Hilda would eventually need to speak with Zelda if they were to ever make it to the dimension between dimensions, because even from the brief moment Hilda sensed Hyrule though the crack in the slate, she could feel that the entire kingdom was brimming with strong magic.

Hilda soon finished eating her breakfast, and she began getting ready for the day.

She was brushing her hair with her wooden hairbrush before a knock sounded at her door.

"Enter."

Hilda turned back towards the mirror as she heard the door open and close, and finished brushing, setting her hairbrush down.

"Good morning, Princess. You asked for me?" She heard Ravio ask, and she smiled as she turned around.

She was about to respond, but when she saw him, she immediately froze looking at him.

Ravio was wearing his purple tunic that he wore before he left, though the brown belt with the rupee emblem was over his waist once again, but over the tunic, he appeared to have cut the hem of his robes to be shorter and turned into more of long coat, before he hemmed the coat again and added buttons to the split in the middle that he had created, though she could see he still had his rabbit ears and eyes on his robe.

He had also switched out his boots with longer boots that went only a few inches below his knees and had put on fingerless gloves as well, though his hair was still in the same unruly fashion as before.

The dagger Hilda had given him so long was sheathed at his side as well, and it touched Hilda that he had kept it even when in Hyrule.

"Ravio, what did you do to your clothes?" She asked, trying very hard not to show her shaky voice or slight blush that was beginning to creep up.

He looked away, smiling with genuine happiness as he did a small spin to let Hilda see the whole of it.

"I decided since I'm going to be adventuring with you around Lorule, I need to be able to move quickly, and my robes wouldn't allow for that, so I figured I'd combine the robes and my tunic. I also brought you this, it's a part of the scraps from cutting my robes."

Ravio pulled out a long purple piece of cloth, that had been embroidered with golden pieces of thread sewn into it, coming together to form the Triforce in the center.

Hilda took it into her hands, her eyes wide in awe as she examined it, her fingers tracing the golden thread.

"Ravio, it's beautiful. What is it supposed to be, exactly?" She asked, and he smiled nervously.

"Well, I told my mother that we were leaving the castle today, and how I said the sun would probably hurt your eyes as it did with mine when I first arrived in Hyrule, so when I was modifying my robes, she embroidered this design onto it, and said you could use it as a blindfold so you don't possibly go blind." He said, and Hilda looked up into his eyes, before smiling gratefully.

"Ravio, thank you so much. You'll be there to help guide me, right?" She asked, and he nodded.

"That's why I'm coming with you, I know you can defend yourself against any threats, even without your sight. Are you ready?" He asked, and she nodded.

"Yes, let's go."

                                            ~~~

"Your Majesty, another visitor wishes to speak with you."

Princess Zelda, the leading monarch for Hyrule at age fourteen, was sitting in the Throne Room in Hyrule Castle, two Royal Guards by her side.

She and Link, the Hero of Hyrule, had only returned to Hyrule two days before, after Zelda had been kidnapped by Yuga under Princess Hilda of Lorule's orders, and Hilda had returned her and Link using a magical bracelet.

The Hylian Triforce had been restored when Zelda and Link had returned to Hyrule's Sacred Realm, and the two had made the wish to restore the Lorulean Triforce and to free everyone who had been turned into a painting.

Zelda now had two guards posted to keep her guarded at all times, as decreed by Lady Impa, her handmaiden, to keep the peace after all of the uproar that had been caused by Yuga.

Link had left Hyrule Castle to return the Master Sword to its pedestal in the Lost Woods, before arriving home, seeing that Ravio actually cleaned his mess and laid everything out the way Link had it, but barely having time to register before collapsing into his bed.

Zelda looked up from where she was sitting on her throne to see the person she was thinking of, the young Hero of Hyrule, Link.

Link was only a couple years younger than Zelda herself, but when he walked into the door, Zelda felt as if a shadow had fallen over her when she saw how exhausted Link was, as he was carrying a small package in his hands, with dark shadows underneath his eyes.

"Link! Are you okay?" Zelda asked, as she hurriedly stood up and rushed over to where the young boy was standing, her guards hurrying after her.

Link looked warily up at the Princess, before bowing forward and holding up the package to her, a note now clearly visible on it.

Zelda took the note into her hands and read it to herself

Dear Princess Zelda of Hyrule,

I have brought you this gift today to apologize for not being able to save you from being abducted by Yuga, and for not being able to keep Hyrule from almost being destroyed. I hope that you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

Sincerely,
Link of Hyrule

Zelda looked up from the note, as she took the package from Link's hand and opened it, revealing a simple gold chain with the Hyrulean Triforce emblem hanging from the chain.

"Oh, it's so beautiful, did you make this?" Zelda asked, and Link shook his head, smiling bashfully.

"I know it was okay in the end, but my master suggested I create an apology gift for you anyway, but he created it since I am still an apprentice, but I hope you accept my apology anyway." Link signed, and Zelda laughed, as she put the necklace around her neck and placed the note and wrapping in her pocket.

"Of course I accept your apology, Link, there was never anything to forgive. You are the sole reason Hyrule and Lorule are still standing, and I and the rest of the kingdom will forever be in your debt." She said, and Link smiled again, when the doors opened, a servant frantically running from something.

The guards readied their spears, when a small blue and white bird with red eyes flew in through the doorway, an envelope grasped in its claws.

"Sheerow? What are you doing here in Hyrule?" Zelda asked, and Link looked at her with a confused look.

"You know the name of Ravio's bird?" He signed, and Zelda nodded, as she held out her hand and took the envelope from Sheerow, who began flying and tweeting around Link's head.

"Ravio told me while Princess Hilda was escorting us to Lorule's Sacred Realm, but I suppose they might still need our help if Ravio sent Sheerow here with a letter." Zelda said, as she opened the envelope and read the scroll.

Princess Zelda of Hyrule,

This letter is from Ravio, you might remember from when I saved you and Link in Lorule from my Princess, sorry that she almost attacked you, she was not in the right mind space, I'm sure you could understand. We recently discovered a prophecy that has said that our kingdom is doomed unless we seek out the hidden kingdom in the dimension between dimensions. However, I have spoken with Hilda about this, and she has said she will need to be in a strong magical area in order to open a portal to the dimension between dimensions. We have no right of asking for a favor as highly as this, but we would like to request permission to come to Hyrule so that we may use the strongest magical area your kingdom has to offer to save both of our kingdoms. Please send a response with Sheerow as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Ravio Kiro, Servant of Lorule Castle

P.S. I included the book I borrowed from your castle library about the hidden kingdom in the envelope. I didn't mean to have it for so long, it slipped my mind to return it before returning to Lorule. Also, if Link sees this, tell him I said hello.

Zelda looked up at Sheerow, who had settled onto Link's hat, and turned to one of her guards.

"Please bring me a piece of parchment and my quill and ink, I would like to send a message to the Princess of Lorule."