When you retrace this path you realize Link took Zelda to the only safe place left that he knew - his home.
Link was scrambling back home in retreat. And Ganon��s influence was on their heels the entire way. He might as well have been knocking on Link’s door.
Harrowing.
zelda at the end of totk (she was wide awake and completely aware the entire time she was the light dragon, meaning she witnessed eons of the zelda timeline unfold; she has at last realized the futility of her and link's task, and was driven mad by this realization long ago.)
"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." — Ursula K. Le Guin