Brii stared at the young man with a growing look of incredulity. Could he really be that stupid? When Ganondorf had sent her off to kill the Hero of Time, she'd spent days going over different stories she'd use or different ways she might sabotage his journey. She'd thought of intricate lies to lull him into a sense of security, debated which poisons would probably have the best effects, and examined her map over and over for alcoves she could lure him into.

She'd been so intently inspecting her map near the drawbridge to Hyrule's capital that she'd been rather annoyed to have a strange light flicker over her parchment. When she'd looked up, she'd frozen and prayed to any goddess who might listen that the green tuniced, blonde haired, blue eyed man smiling in front of her wasn't the guy she was supposed to be assassinating. She wasn't ready.

When he'd seen her look of horror, his smile had slipped into an expression of sickeningly sweet concern and he'd asked what was wrong.

Her mind had blanked. She needed the bastard dead and she couldn't remember a single one of her lies. As she'd fish mouthed, Link had sat down beside her and inspected her map, noticing that she'd circled a few spots. He tapped the nearest one. "What's there?"

"My cat."

It was the stupidest thing she could have said and she hated herself for it. However, Link had merely furrowed his brow and looked at her. "Your cat?"

"I lost him," she'd whispered, wondering if he could tell she was an assassin just by looking at her. Surely he'd had to deal with a few people already. However, lame as her story was, she figured she would have to run with it. Perhaps if she spoke fast enough, she could salvage the situation. "My family...we were moving. I didn't get to bring my cat with me...and my brother brought it instead. Well, he was supposed to." She floundered for a moment, almost wishing the hero would just draw his sword and put her out of her misery. "It's...it's a long, boring, useless story. The end result is that my dipshit brother lost my cat in an alcove and I wasn't there so I don't know which one. I don't even know which paths he took and since I yelled at him, he won't tell me."

"I'll help you find your cat," Link replied almost instantly.

Brii had stared blankly at him. His response hadn't processed properly. There was just...no way he would just... What was going on? Was he screwing with her? She fought back a frown as she wondered if he underestimated her abilities.

"Um, don't you have to save the world?"

Link blinked at her in surprise, and then scratched the back of his neck. "Do I...know you?"

"No," she'd responded, instantly hating herself more. "I mean, there's a rumor about a hero coming to vanquish the evildoers. And they're saying he...well, that he looks like you. Green tunic..." she noticed the light again and frowned as she saw the wings protruding from it. "Fairy..." Oh goddesses, fairies could tell when someone was lying, couldn't they? "I mean, I shouldn't just assume things...I guess you probably get that a lot...?"

Link had merely shrugged. "Well, not to downplay my job, but I think I can find the time to help you get your cat."

A burst of wind had fluttered Brii's brown hair around her and she'd found herself unable to reign in her stupidity. "But...isn't saving the world more imminent?"

"Well, how's this..." Link offered, smiling brightly, "I'll help you find your cat, and you can give me that map."

"What?" Brii felt like she was walking into a trap, but she couldn't for the life of her tell what kind. "Why would you—"

"Fucking idiot lost our map," the fairy muttered in a high pitched, squeaky voice.

Brii looked from the ball of light to the hero. "What?"

Turning his attention toward something apparently very interesting on his shoes, Link shrugged. "It's a long, boring story, but—"

"No it's not, you're just a dumb fuck," the fairy interrupted. However, even as Link tried to protest, the small creature flitted down and perched on one of Brii's shoulders. "Look, we find your cat, you give us that map so that we can at least pretend that moron here is competent. Deal?"

Even as Link muttered something about someone named Navi—the fairy, Brii supposed—being rude in front of others, Brii had eyed the fairy and then shrugged, hesitating when the little orb let loose a string of curses as she was flung into the air by the motion. "It's a deal."

She could do this. She'd get Link into that grotto, get him up in a tree or something, and then kill him off. Perhaps it wouldn't be as hard to do as she'd originally thought.

Link hopped to his feet and offered her a hand as Navi fluttered through the air, pausing once to swirl around the map before heading off in the proper direction. As Brii took his help, she forced a smile and bit back a curse when Link asked her what her cat's name was.