As I sit on my new, king-sized bed, I sigh with content. I'm still not happy about why I'm here at the palace, but at least I'm one step closer to destroying Link. I know that I won't be here for too long, before I have to go through my part of the bargain, but I decide to worry about that later. I smile at my reflection in the full-length mirror, still amazed at my reflection.
Link wants me to go and find Malon. He claims that the pathetic ranch girl ran away, "With something that matters greatly to me." I asked no questions. I instantly agreed to go to Termina and find her. But what I didn't know when I signed up for this job was how difficult it would be to avoid Zelda.
The princess knocks on my door lightly, and I know that I have no choice but to let her in. I reluctantly open the door, and she hurries in, tear-stained and sad. She's not dressed in her normal everyday clothing, so I know that something is up.
"Can I help you?" I ask politely, hoping that she'll go away. But she just sits down and starts crying again.
"A-Aires?" I look at her and put my hand on her shoulder lightly. "I-I'm p-pregnant." I look at her, eyebrows raised, and she continues. "I don't know how to tell Link… I mean, what with this whole deal with Malon and finding his daughter and all." I pat Zelda on the back gently before I realize what she had just said.
"What? Link's what?" Zelda stares at me, shocked that I don't know what she's talking about.
"Don't you know? I can't believe that he wouldn't tell you. What do you think you're here for?" I shake my head and motion for her to continue. "Malon had a baby girl four or five years ago… and she's Link's daughter. He just found out at the wedding and now he's all in an uproar trying to find her. But Malon just took her and ran… that's why he's sending you to go and spy on her. To get his baby back. But now that I'm going to have a baby too, I don't know what he's going to react like. Can you help me?" I want to answer, but I'm too stunned. I'm instantly torn, sudden realization overcoming me. It wasn't really Zelda that I should hate- it was Link. I vow to help her, even if I will ruin my plans.
I arrive in Clock Town almost a full two days later and silently curse Link for sending me to this distant place. I book a room at a small inn and ask the woman who worked there, Anju, if she had seen anything odd.
"Odd? What do you mean… by odd?" I sigh and give up. I turn to go to my room when I hear the sound of a small bell. I turn the other way and see, to my delight, Malon, plain as day, walking into my trap.
"Excuse me," I say, walking over to her and wondering where her daughter was, "But I'm new to this town and I was wondering if you could show me around. Would that be a problem? My name is Aires," I add, holding out my hand. After a moment's thought, Malon shakes it.
"Malon. And sure. I'd love to show you around."
This wasn't right, I decide, after a day of seeing everything there was to see about Clock Town. How did Malon, who, as far as I was aware had always lived in Hyrule, know so much about this place? I decide to see if Link would know, so I quickly dash off a letter and put it in the red mailbox. I look up to see a small blonde child running after a little boy in a blue cap, and I instantly begin to investigate. She follows him to a place where a boy stands in the entrance to an alleyway and asks for a password, then casually asks the boy why the girl is following him. I lean close to them so I can hear, but to my great disappointment, he already seems to know that she was there.
"Mama said that she had to come with me, and I guess that means that she's got to come here, too," he said with disgust. "Okay, Camre?" The boy at the entry nods and the two of them disappear into the alley. I walk slowly back to the Inn, but I'm startled when I hear a familiar voice.
"Thought that you could get rid of me that easily, did you?"