Chapter Three: Good Morning
Link was standing in a dark forest breathing heavily. Before him was someone breathing just as heavily and covered in a misty fog.
"Link," the person said in a blurry voice. "I…was…created……to……-"
Suddenly as the voice wandered off, the fog around the person covered Link's entire range of sight until the color brown once again faded into the focus of Phae's bedroom.
He jumped up, breathing almost as heavily as he had in the dream.
"Good morning." Phae said from across the room. "Sleep well?" She took a sip from the hot wooden cup in her hand. Link returned his breathing to fairly normal with a sigh.
"Y-yeah…" he yawned. "It was okay." He looked out of the window. It was probably two to three hours until noon, he thought.
"How is the cut?"
"It's not bad anymore. I think I'm fine."
"Let me see it." Phae put down the cup on a wooden box then walked toward Link. He turned to face the side of the bed then stressed lifting off his tunic and laid it aside. Phae removed a layer of bandage at his waist to reveal the cut.
It was still a very dark red, and it had gone what appeared to be an inch into his slender waist. Phae, with one hand, slid her hand along the cut sending chills down Link's spine. With the other hand, she slid her index finger slowly down his chest and stomach affectionately.
"Try standing again." She suggested. Link moved an inch up then stopped a moment for two reasons. One, a small pain was felt at his side and two, he realized that, even though he had been covered by the quilted blanket before, he had just removed his tunic. He was stuck between putting it on and perhaps offending her by the thought that the only reason for this request was to derive pleasure from the Hylian, or standing up and revealing his lower body. In the split second he had to decide, he passed off his pause as adjusting to the pain and made the decision to lift himself with one hand and hold the blanket with the other. He successfully lifted himself onto his feet (with some easily expected difficulty), and Phae nodded her head in approval.
"Good. Well, if you think that you can handle the trip, your stuff is downstairs by the door. There is a map of the woods on the table if you need it." She started to walk away from the bed then turned and said: "Oh, I nearly forgot. There's a horse sitting outside of my cabin. If that would happen to be yours, I'd appreciate if you moved it."
"Thank you for your help." She responded with a nod then walked out of the room after picking up her cup. Once the door closed, Link fell down backwards onto the bed and dropped the blanket on the floor. After a couple seconds, he grabbed his tunic then fit it on.
Link found his way back to his home in Hyrule castle town before sunset.