Ok, something popped up over memorial weekend, when this chapter was suppose to be published. I'm not sure if I will be able to update at a regular time, but I will try to update as fast as I can. As always, please review, and enjoy!

Chapter 14

Malon found herself walking through the tall grass of Hyrule Field, Link by her side pointing out things of interest. It was a good dream and she tried to hold onto it for as long as she could, but she found the dream ending all too soon and she found herself waking up. Though waking up wasn't so bad as she woke up to Link with a smile on his face. Even though it was a nice wake up she still put a little pout on her face.

"Good dream?" Link asked upon seeing the cute little pout.

"Yes," Malon replied as she rested her head back on her pillow, "Are those glasses?"

"Reading glasses, yes," Link took the glasses off and put them in his pocket, "anyway, dinner's ready."

Malon got up and followed Link down the stairs, the table already had two plates filled with meatloaf, mashed potatoes and peas, on each with a tall glass of milk each. Malon sat down at one of the plates and looked at the delicious looking food. "This looks great, Link."

"Thanks, I hope you don't mind but I was starting to get tired of soup for dinner," Link said as he dug into his plate.

"Mmm," Malon hummed as she took a bite of the meatloaf. As she chewed a very large stack of old and new papers on the table caught her eye. "Are those the encoded papers?"

"Yeah, after I decoded the first set I went and got the rest," Link said as he reached over and handed a stack of the new paper to Malon. "It took a while but once I got the code down, the rest was easy."

Malon looked though the paper and it had names and number next to them. "What are these?" she asked as she shuffled through them.

"Prisoner forms," Link replied.

"Oh, what are you going to do with them?" she asked.

"By law I have to give them to the princess."

"Oh."

"But the law doesn't say when I have to give them to the princess."

"Is there anything we can learn from them?"

"No, all of the people who are on these have passes away," Link says as he drinks from his glass of milk.

"What a shame," Malon set the papers down and picked up her fork once again.

After dinner, Link excused himself to the bathroom to take a shower and Malon took the papers to the living room table, sat down on the couch, and looked through them. She was looking through the coded papers and started to file through them, each paper had a hand drawn portrait on it. A lot of the portraits were pretty scary, some missing an eye, a few missing half a nose, a lot of them missing a few teeth. She looked through them till she found two stuck together. Missed one Link...Malon though to herself as she carefully pulled them apart. She placed the already decoded paper aside and looked at the new found paper. The portrait displayed a young man, he looked different from all of the other portraits, he had all of his teeth, he had medium length hair that fell over one eye, he had no visible markings on him at all. One of the most off putting things about him was that he was smiling, like he was genuinely happy.

Malon got a very bad case of deja vu, but she couldn't place where she had seen this man. She stood up and started to pace with the page in hand, trying to think were she had seen this man. It wasn't in any photo albums, she knew this for sure. She was still pacing when Link came back from his bath.

"Hey," Link said, snapping Malon out of her thoughts, "are you alright?"

"Who is this?" Malon asked showing the page to Link, who took it with confusion.

"Where did you get this?" Link asked.

"It was stuck to another page," Malon explained. Link went past her and picked up a pencil and a blank sheet of paper, and started on decoding. It took him about ten minutes, but he finally had a name.

"It's James," Link said with both confusion and worry.

"What do you mean it's James?" Malon asked, Link was about to answer her but the door to the house opened and Talon walked through. "Father?" Malon asked in utter confusion, he wasn't to be back till tomorrow.

"Hello there darlin', we had a little trouble with bandits, took all of the milk, so we came back. Ingo is puttin' up the horses now," Talon explained as he made his way to the icebox. He pulled out some milk and poured himself a cup. Link set about cleaning up the papers while Malon set about fixing him a plate of dinner. He thanked her for the plate and started to eat. He didn't get through half of his plate when the door flew open once more. This time James strolled through the door. Both Link and Malon couldn't do anything but look in shock, it was Talon who reacted first.

"Can I help you?" Talon asked as he rose.

"Yes you can," James said with a wicked smile on his face, quick as lightning, he drew his sword off his back, and through Talon with it, lifting him into the air as Talon's body slide down the blade.

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