A/N: Well, new chapter! Oh, and if Winter Daze is reading this, I have a DBZ fic to recommend to you. It's called "To Eat or Not to Eat" and it's about Vegeta betting Goku that Goku can't survive a day without food. Very funny, especially the consequences of the bet. Anyone else who watches DBZ should read it too.
As usual in this fic {} is a character's thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zelda. Or the fic I mentioned before. Or anything basically. Oh, actually, I do own the plot. Yay! Not like anyone's going to buy it, but if you want to MiST it or use stuff like body-transforming potions and Link's double, ask. Anyway, back to the story.

"LINK! WHAT DID YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?" Link looked nervous as Saria's rage broke over me. {She's going to pop a vein,} he thought.
"What do you mean?" he asked innocently.
"YOU KNOW VERY WELL WHAT I MEAN! THOSE QUESTIONS! THEY WERE REALLY RUDE!" Saria was really angry, and Link gulped.
"Umm, I, uh, was, um, I thought he was hiding something..." Link said. {I'm starting to sound like Mido.}
"THAT'S NO EXCUSE! HE CAME ALL THE WAY FROM KOKIRI FOREST! HE DIDN'T DESERVE THAT AFTER SUCH A LONG JOURNEY! ANYWAY, HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT HE WAS HIDING SOMETHING?"
"Well 'um, I, um, uh...' is usually a pretty good indication," Link said grumpily.
"YOU JUST SPOKE LIKE THAT BEFORE! Are you hiding something?" Saria asked suspiciously. Link flinched. It was the question he didn't want to be asked. (A/N: Because, of course, he washiding something for Mido, in case you couldn't figure it out.) {Oh well, at least she's stoped shouting,} Link thought.
"Look, I'm not hiding anything. I just have a feeling...I think something happened that he's not telling you about," Link said. {I hope that sounded credible.}
"A feeling?" {If I had Obi here, she'd be able to tell whether Mido or Link was hiding something.} "You honestly think that Link?" Saria asked.
"Yes," said Link sincerly. He knew Mido was hiding something, he was hiding the true reasons he went to find Saria. They were fairly obvious, in Link's opinion.
"Well, he's never hidden anything from me before. I've know him ever since I can remember."
"How old are you?" Link had a idea that Saria wasn't really a child.
"Well, Kokiri actually don't tally years, but if we did I'd be, uh, 2378. Yeah, that's right. I think."
"WHAT? 2378? How come you look like a child?" Link was shocked.
"Kokiri all look like children. We're a race of children. We live forever because we never grow up, so we can't die of old age. We live like children too." Saria smiled
"You'd never left the forest in 2378 years?" Link asked in amazement.
"No. They say that if Kokiri leave the forest we die. It's not true, I don't think... No-one that I know of ever tried it before me except Link, and he wasn't a Kokiri."
"Why would they say it if it wasn't true?"
"I have no idea. Maybe a Kokiri tried it a very long time ago and never came back. The other Kokiri woud presume they were dead," Saria said.
"Makes sense I suppose. But I can't help thinking there's more to it..." Link said thoughtfully.
"Yeah," Saria replied.

Mido stepped into the room.
"Talon says I have to sleep up here. He gave me an extra blanket. What were you arguing about?" he asked.
Link opened his mouth, but Saria saw and silenced him with a glare. "Nothing. Don't worry about it Mido," she said. {How can he have heard? Kokiri certainly can't hear that well. Mido was all the way across the ranch...}
"Look, Saria, I think we need to talk to Mido. About leaving the forest," Link whispered to her.
"I don't know..." she whispered back.
"HEY! What are you two whispering about? Mido asked. Link and Saria gulped. {How did he hear that?} Link thought. There was a rather long pause.

"Mido, what do you know about Kokiri leaving the forest?" Saria asked finally.
"Well, I know we're not the only two to have left..."
"Who else?"
"Once, before you were around, Saria, there was another Kokiri. She was called Kino. She left the forest to follow a boy who had visited. The next thing we heard of Kino, which was about 60 years later, she was dead."
"Oh. So that's why everyone says you die if you leave the forest," Saria said.
"Does anyone know how she died?" Link asked.
"We don't know how exactly, but she wasn't hurt. So she died naturally. Kokiri don't die naturally. So the others, including myself, believed that leaving the forest must have caused her to die. The Great Deku Tree replaced her with you, Saria."
"Oh. So, that was about 2370 years ago," Saria said.
"Yeah."
"Well, can we find any of her descendants?" Link asked.
"No. Kokiri don't have children," Mido said.
"For some odd reason, I think we should still look for records. Hyrule Castle Town or Kakariko Village should have them," Link said.
"How long have you been here Link? I never asked," Saria said.
"I've been here for a few weeks. I've seen most places."
"Oh, OK. Do you know the way around?" Mido asked.
"Yes," Link replied.