After some tribulations, Lonk made his guardian wait for him one more day, by not selling all the vegetables he needed to on purpose. He was punished, nonetheless. He was not allowed to eat other than the bread his guardian gave him until the next day.
He was pissed at Lonk. But maybe it wasn't all the kid's fault.
While Lonk walked to the pond where he would meet Mosuli, he remembered how weird his guardian had acted when he saw a man in the crowd.
Said man was accompanied by three guards and his wife. Lonk saw him for a brief moment, but he felt some familiarity towards him. Even though their clothes said otherwise.
Blolto took notice of the man's glare and put himself in front of Lonk. Then yelled at him to get back to work. Hurrying made it difficult to see his face.
The conflicted face of someone who just saw a person they didn't know they would find.
Because he had abandoned him.
Of course it wasn't of Lonk's knowledge what the man was to him. And it wouldn't for some time.
For now, the kid waited at the pond just before the sun sat, brushing off what happened earlier.
His guts growled and his mind was getting irritated.
"Mosuli...where are you?" He asked himself looking for someone who wouldn't be there. "I need to say goodbye to you..." he talked to himself sat on a log.
The night would be long for both children.
At the brothel, the girls were already at their jobs. Some serving their clients cheap liquor, others dancing in their laps. But a few others, were in the rooms. Mosuli was in the floor looking blankly at the ceiling after his client had finished.
The man payed for a service and Mosuli was forced to give it to him. He had no stamina and so it was quick. But Mosuli's mind wasn't working properly to follow time. He could only feel the leftover pain.
It was so fast and the shocked kid couldn't keep up.
However, the night still had some more hours.
And so Mosuli was forced into the room with a man again. This time, he wouldn't bring himself to feel it. He couldn't. So he chew the leaves Lein had given him earlier as it went down.
Reality was affected during that, so Mosuli didn't notice he took three more clients and came back to himself just moments before closing time.
He was in the mat with his silky dress torn apart. Just crying soundlessly as he stared at the unflattering ceiling. Lein came in searching for him and collapsed by his side after her eyes found him. She embraced him with tears on her face.
"I'm sorry I'm so sorry Mosuli. I'm sorry..." she mumbled as she hugged him tight. Mosuli didn't like showing weakness. Didn't like to cry in front of others. But this time, he held onto her with desperation. Quietly crying into her chest.
Back at the pond, the first rays of sunshine bathed Hyrule and touched everything they could grasp of the small space. The rocks, the water, the trees...
It was long ago that Lonk had gone back to his guardian.
"You just wanted to see that little bitch didn't you?!" Blolto had slapped him when he came back. "For Hylia Lonk, she's not that special! Forget about her until next time and do your damn job kid!" He had yelled at him as he forcefully straightened him up.
"What's with that old geezer?" Lonk thought to himself as he carried the last boxes of vegetables to the market place "he really got a bad mood. It's better to finish this off soon..." he stopped for a second looking to the ground. "I hope he comes today...I won't have more chances" he said as he sat on his little place by the goods.
He prolonged it as long as he could, but in the end he sold it all off before 3 o'clock.
Blolto looked mildly satisfied as well as annoyed. He threw some money for Lonk to buy his meal and ordered him to get back in two hours.
Lonk wasn't stupid enough to tempt his luck this time waiting for him. If he didn't find Mosuli by then...he thought of a way of telling him goodbye. But when he noticed it he was at the pond and a small figure was sitting on the log he had sat on the day before.
Lonk doubted but took a step forward "Hey" He said making Mosuli turn his head to him. His eyes were red and he had bruises in his mouth.
"What happened yesterday? Why didn't you come?" Lonk asked. He was angry he left him waiting. But maybe, the bruises were the reason.
Mosuli looked at him ashamed and took away his head from him. Unable to control his feelings, Mosuli stood up and slowly walked to Lonk's mouth emitted a poor imitation of a scream as he sobbed onto his arms.
Lonk was too confused and hurt to ask anything. So he just embraced him too. He felt awkward holding him that way but after a bit he asked the undeniable question: "what happened to you?"
Mosuli tried swiping his tears off and looking at Lonk, but his eyes were still teary.
Mosuli's hands could form lots of sentences as well as his lips but the only thing that came up was "please don't ask. I'm sorry...but I can't..."
Lonk took a look at Mosuli and put a frown "ok...I won't ask then" he said, unaware of the incoming footsteps. "I waited for you yesterday...we...gotta say goodbye. I'm going back tomorrow" he said his words heavy on himself too, as Mosuli tried to process it.
Mosuli made a circular movement upon his chest. "I...don't want you to go..."
Lonk blushed after reading his lips moving "Hey, no need to worry, we will come back for sure" he said trying to sound enthusiastic. But he didn't want to tell him he didn't know when.
"Lonk?"
"Yeh?"
"We are friends right?" Mosuli asked with redder eyes.
"Of course we are!" Lonk reassured him immediately. He felt his cheeks hot as the words came out.
Slowly, with pain being relieved, Mosuli smiled.
Mosuli signaled himself with his hand and then Lonk. Then he pulled back his hands and signed.
"Friends"
After a soft breeze blew Mosuli looked up to Lonk.
"Go safely and don't try to tame a horse bigger than you" Mosuli told him unable to hold a tear.
"Can't promise anything, silly" He answered.
Mosuli went for another hug and Lonk gave it to him. But at that moment the man's eyes widened in outrage.
"YOU FILTHY WHORE!" The man screamed at the kids as he pulled him away from Lonk. "Think you can do this shit, huh?!" He yelled as he grabbed him by his wrist.
"HEY!" Lonk yelled back trying to make him let go. "What the fuck?!"
"And you! Trying to get your hands on my products without paying! Get off me!" Master slapped Lonk so hard he fell to the ground. Mosuli saw him falling and his repressed rage came out in the form of rebellion. He started kicking him and fighting his iron grip until he hit his knee and dropped him. Mosuli ran to Lonk who was stepping up, but he was caught mid run by a bulky man. He screamed as he kicked the man.
"Mosuli!" Lonk screamed as he saw him going away. Master stood just by him and started kicking him. Lonk's mouth started bleeding and he could taste the iron passing through his teeth.
"Attempt to see her again" Master grabbed Lonk by his hair as his hurt face showed the pain of a broken rib "I'll fucking kill you kid. You pay or you don't see her. Simple right? even an illiterate like you should understand that" his poisonous tongue moved as he let go of him.
Suddenly Lonk saw Mosuli running back to him and the man that carried him covering his eye.
Mosuli went straight ahead to Master and punched him with a rock in his stomach. Then he went to Lonk and tried putting him in a comfortable position. But Master grabbed him by the arm and slapped him hard. As if it wasn't enough, the man pulled his hand into a fist and punched Mosuli in the face making him fall.
When he fell to the ground and Master started walking towards Lonk again Mosuli's small hand reached his master's ankle and held into it.
"You...mutt" The man said with fire on his eyes. But as he saw the kid eyes he stopped "tsk. Take her away" he ordered to the man that came running to pick up the child. "That goes to the book" he said to himself as he saw Mosuli being carried away.
In the floor Lonk tried to reach the man going away "Stop...!" He said softly.
"Don't come near the brothel ever again if you appreciate your life kid" he said as he walked after them.
Lonk's consciousness drifted into a sleep as he saw the man's feet moving away.

Soon Blolto found him unconscious in the ground and filled with bruises. He was enraged.
"Robbed? And they didn't take your wallet away?! What kind of idiot would believe that?" The man said as he patched the kid up.
"I put up a fight you see...ARGH!" He screamed as a cream was rubbed into his ribs.
"You don't remember the attacker? Nothing at all?" The man asked. Lonk did. But...
"No" he shook his head.
He didn't want him to know he had went after Mosuli again.
"We will go after you heal your wounds" the man said softly "You're useless to me in that state" he broke the possible softness his gross being could have.
"Understood..." Lonk replied through the pain in the smallest and defeated tone.

In the other side of town Mosuli was being held by his sisters.
"Where are you going?! You can barely stand!" Lein yelled at him holding his arms up as he revolved "You want to go see him so much? You want to die?!" Lein pulled him down, the kid still putting up a fight.
No girl had seen him put a fight like that before. He was rebelling against their master. And still with a black eye and various bruises he was still kicking...literally.
"Mosuli...! Stop! Mosuli, Stop!" Lein held him down. "You're hurting me!" She said making his feet stop. "Thanks!" She said rubbing her stomach. "Now calm down and explain to me what the hell just happened"
Mosuli kept quiet for a bit and then when his hands were free he straightened up and moved them frantically in front of her.
"I hate him! He thinks he owns us and can exploit us as he likes! Well he's wrong! I didn't ever want to have that alcoholic stupid bastard as my father. I hate him and all men who come here! All of them are perverts who don't care about our feelings. They don't care about us at all! He beat Lonk up just cause I was with him. He's nuts!" He signed furiously as he cried.
"Mosuli...I love you. I seriously consider you my little sister. But those feelings will get you killed sooner than later. Give up" she said hating herself "I can't...I can't walk because I tried going away, Kid! What he will do to you if you do anything else? Behave and live!" She yelled at him. Mosuli frowned and signed back furiously again.
"No! Can't you see we could overthrow him? We could escape! You know many ways you just didn't get out because you were alone so Lein, please!" Mosuli begged "help us get out of here!"
Lein saw his hands moving and cried "I CANT! I won't be able to! I'm...Im... Argh! Why couldnt you just be more obedient?!" Lein screamed. She grabbed Mosuli again "hear me out. You cant escape here. What you gonna do if Im gone? You gotta fend for yourself here. If you don't, you and him die. Got it? Die. Dead. You want him to die kid?" She persuaded him. Mosuli cried enraged.
"I'll make a deal then! I'll better it myself! I cant even count on you apparently!" He said to Lein as he ran clumsily to the door and hit it with all his power.
The door opened and Mosuli didn't even look back. He went straight to his master's office. As he stood in front of it he felt a heavy weight on his stomach. The deal he was about to do wasn't good for him in the least but he couldn't do shit. Nor anything else.
He opened the door and closed it behind him, standing still to the view of his master.
"Oh? What brings the little slut here?" The man asked "your friend is fine and your debt increased go back and get ready for work today" Mosuli couldn't feel relieved. He knew it wasn't the whole truth. He didn't have Lein by his side so he couldnt communicate very well. So, Mosuli grabbed a paper from nearby and went to his desk where he followed his movements with pistol eyes.
Mosuli showed him the note.
"I offer you a deal. You let me see him again and I will make you gain LOTS of money before next week'?" The man laughed as he finished "C'mon what makes you think you're on position to offer me a deal? You're just a little whore that started yesterday. And why would you see that boy? What for? Isn't it to escape from here?" He tangled his arms as Mosuli's face didn't fade "I don't trust you. And the answer is no" he said as he made a clicking sound and the steps came rushing as Mosuli's pen moved.
"'7000 rupees? Now you're just desperate. Take her away from me and watch that she doesn't go out of the building" he instructed the man as he grabbed him. Mosuli got free and moved his pen again.
"5 Days!"
It said.
Master had read it but didn't think Mosuli could do something like that, so he just went over to the window and humphed.
"That Love will be the dead of you Mutt" he talked to himself "you" he referred to the guard waiting outside "don't let that blonde skinny kid get anywhere near understood? If he does kill him" he said as he heard a low affirmation and went back to count the money the woman had given him.

Mosuli meant it.
He was all in to become a useful and necessary tool for that filthy man just so he could gain favors from him that wouldn't be added to the list. If he was crying the night before because of a pervert way of "having fun", now he was making them tip him for a "great service".
Lein's training had served a lot to that less than noble way of earning money and fast to lose your pride action. However, the money started to pile up as men entered the brothel.
As soon as he finished the act of playing the playful mute slut, Mosuli went back to rub his body with furious outrage.
"All This freaking perverts. All of them! go to hell!" He once screamed inside his head while the girls were taking a bath.
But it was when he was falling asleep on the second day that he cried.
He was still a kid. He was letting them use him but it was still non consensual. His tears were of frustration of rage and disgust. They stopped suddenly to the realization of someone.
"Now it's not time to cry Mosuli! Pull yourself together! For Lonk" he thought as he fell asleep.

Lonk in the other side had his face even bigger than before.
His ribs still hurt and he could barely eat.
Blolto has to take a rol he didn't wanted to and was nursing him back to health.
"We are not coming back Lonk until you tell me who did this" Blolto insisted.
Lonk stayed quiet as usual, making the man sigh. He was getting used to the child not responding and blamed it half on him hitting puberty.
"You feel good enough to ride back home tomorrow lad?" The man said.
"...not really" Lonk was strangely quiet and shut.
But it was all an act to hide the fact his mind was running around trying to find a solution to the way of saying goodbye and checking on Mosuli.
"You gotta get up. Up, up" the man said suddenly taking Lonk and helping him get out of the provisional inn bed he was sleeping on. Lonk walked, though very shaky.
"There you go" Blolto went. "You can walk so it's just a matter of some few weeks until you're healed completely. Don't take heavy things Lonk. I sincerely don't wanna play nurse any longer" he sighed exasperated.
"Thanks" Lonk said looking at the man strangely "I'll go find something to eat" he said attempting to go outside being stopped by him.
"You really shouldn't try to see her again" the man said making Lonk look at him surprised "she's getting pretty famous you know? Say she's really well instructed and all in that seducing thing they have. She will be difficult to get next time. But you won't listen to me if I told you to drop it there huh?" The man laughed between teeth. Lonk said nothing as he went through the door.
Blolto was alone and so he talked something that would make Lonk jump at him with a knife "You're so much like your father. Following a woman so far below him that got him in so much trouble but still wouldn't let go. I'm glad he just didn't have the balls to come near you that day. I would've broken his rich face in a whim. He stole her from me...so I will steal his son"

Lonk went around and asked about Mosuli to some men at the market. Some of them looked at each other with faint laughs. "You wanna have a try or what kid?" One told him once. "She's fine as hell kid. Couldn't afford the night I believe by your clothes. She's charging 800 rupees now!" Another said.
"What are you...?" Lonk started before Blolto dragged him out of the market. The kid started kicking in protest but Blolto's only explanation was.
"Im not letting you get hurt again! Dont go near rhe market again got it?!"
Lonk was shocked to see such a reaction from him. So much he followed him quietly.
When they were back to the inn Blolto sat him and grabbed his shoulders.
"Look. I understand that you feel enamoured with her, but you gotta let go"
"But, But! I want to tell her goodbye! Please sir let me tell her!" He begged. But Blolto put the frown to end all discussions.
"We cant let that happen boy. Her owner talked to me about you already. You wont go near it ever again, understood?" Lonk opened his mouth but the quiet frustration was the only thing that followed.
"...yes"
"Ok...I trust you on that Lonk. Please dont let me down" he stood up and went to his bed "Now lets sleep. Is gonna be a long way back home" he said as he fell asleep.
Lonk couldnt fall asleep and in the dead of night he could only watch the ceiling in a frown.

Mosuli had being called by his master just before opening time.
He stood in front of his desk as he smoked a cigarrate looking at the outside of the window. His master showed an horrendously annoyed expression.

"Mosuli" it was the first time he called him by his name "do you understand just how much money you have gained in these four days?" he asked him softly. He shooked his head when he had even counted the rupees. "You are a really sly foxxy aren´t you?" he said snarkily. "You win. Ok?" he said sitting back on his chaird defeated. Mosuli untied his hands from his back in surprise. "You can go see him" he said as Mosuli slowly smiled "however, it will have to be right now. I Heard he´s leaving tomorrow…" Mosuli tried to rush to the door but his master´s voice stopped him "HOWEVER. If you try, even think of escaping kid," he got closer to Mosuli and once again, brutally, took him by his collar and forced him to look at him straight into his eyes "you will fucking regret it. You´ve got an hour before I send my dogs" he finished.

Mosuli didn´t even think twice and rushed to the entrance of the brothel. He thought of where he could be and ran to the pond. He was thinking of how badly beaten up he was because of him, but if he could at least say goodbye properly…

The sound of grass and agitated breathing was the only thing Heard at the pond. Calm and lonely. Mosuli let out a distress yelp and ran to the market.

Empty.

His legs started to shake as he didn´t know where else to go. But he didn´t give up. He went around the places they had gone together to, but Lonk was nowhere to be found.

He didn´t have any more time and powerless walked back to the brothel with a grim face. Where he found a familiar face in a convenient place. He walked into the "do everything for you" to talk to the man who had visited him last night.

He waved hello in sign language and Mosuli waved back forcing a smile. He asked for a pen and paper and they were handled to him. Mosuli held the pen on his hands and remembered Lonk´s inability to read. He pressed his eyebrows and lips together and allowed the pen to swiftly print his feelings into the paper. When he was done he handled the folded paper to the man.

"Please give this to a young man called Lonk before tomorrow morning, about the money…" he started signing when he was suddenly interrupted by the man.

"don´t worry, lady" he said "maybe it sounds hypocritic that comes from me, but I´ll help two lovers whenever I can. More if the lady looks this sad as she hands me a note that looks written with tears" he said with an empathic smile that made Mosuli´s make one too. He didn´t feel compeled to correct the lover part.

"Thank you. Just another favor…He can´t read. Could you please read it to him? Goodbye" He waved as he walked back and the man affirmed without him seeing.

When he entered the brothel Lein was waiting for him.

They both entered to the girl´s room and prepared themselves.

"You did all you could right?" Mosuli shooked his head as an answer. "That man told me…That was the last time you went out of the building. Ever." She remarked.

Mosuli looked at her with voids as eyes "I knew that before I went" she signed back.

"And you still did it?" Lein asked him with clear angish on her face.

Mosuli only got up and went through the door to the cantine.

In the morning, Lonk, unable to sleep, was cleaning their horses. He was defeated and hurt. But he convinced himself, or at least tried to, that he would get over this soon.

He really wanted to believe that.

But the tears fell down suddenly.

Lonk rushed to swipe them off but they kept falling. He started to sob as the pain of losing a friend that way was a bit too much for the young lad. His horse reached him and neighed at him, offering himself as confort. Lonk hugged him as he muttered a grateful Word.

After a few minutes a man walked in the stable asking for him.

"You´re Lonk?"

"yes?" a doubtful reply.

"Someone that cares deeply about your well being commanded me to give you this note" He talked before Lonk could even make a pained expression "I know you can´t read, so she asked me to read it to you. It´s early and there´s just us here. Don´t worry about it" the man calmed Lonk.

When they were both sat in a bench he started reading the small note. As his words flowed Lonk´s guts started to push themselves harder and tighter into a knot.

Mosuli was ok and deeply sorry for what had happened. He urged him to not search for him at the brothel again. That they would find their way to meeting again and they needed to say goodbye for now.

"Sorry and goodbye, huh…" Lonk said with a low voice.

"basically…" the man answered.

"Then I´ll wait. Friendships… don´t die because of distance right?"

The man didn´t want to blow his bubble "yes, they don´t. You will be able to meet again" he lied.

Lonk knew he was lying. The man and himself. But he held to that lie tight.

The man excused himself after knowing Lonk didn´t have a way to reply to Mosuli. Just in time for Blolto and him to departure.

With gains and losses both of them were united and both of them turn apart. It wouldn´t be until four years later when they would hear of each other again.

With a stronger and well built Lonk and a very popular Mosuli. Each meeting untolerable situations.

-END of Part 1-