1Later that night, Saya's body was desperately tired, but her mind was wide awake. Her father was a great story-teller. She could see all the huge beasts he had fought perfectly. Gohma, clicking its pincers, anticipating a meal of Link; the Dodongo King, rearing its head, roaring loudly; Volvagia circling the volcano, tongue lashing, body undulating. Would she see monsters like that?
As she stared out the window, Saya saw the light from Navi's body glow dimmer, a sigh she was asleep. Link had the fairy stay with Saya now, as a means of getting them closer.
Navi's asleep, Saya thought, May Nayru send you sleep, Din defend you as it comes...and... Farore...Farore...
She was asleep before she finished the prayer. However, the rest of Saya's night was nowhere near as peaceful as the rest of her family's.
It was dusk. She was standing outside of a walled castle. Saya heard a voice call her name. "Saya! Saya!" Then she saw the boy. He came from the castle's drawbridge. He was wearing a blue tunic and calling her name. "Saya! It's me, Rain! Come on, Saya! Let's play!" But before the boy, Rain, could reach her side, the monster appeared.
It was like the skeleton of some huge beast. It stood between her and Rain, clacking its bones together menacingly. Saya took a nervous step back, knocking into something. A huge creature looking remarkably like Gohma barred her escape.Looking left and right only brought more beasts with each glance
Surrounded by monsters, cut off from a boy named Rain, Saya was only aware of two things: a cold, cruel laugh that seemed to cut her like her father's Master Sword, and her own screaming.
"SAYA!"
Saya sat bolt upright. Link was kneeling beside her bed, his face white. Saya's first reaction was to stare wildly around, seeking the monsters and the owner of the laugh.
"The monsters..." she gasped, "The monsters..."
Link grabbed his daughter in a tight embrace. "They're gone," he whispered, trying to soothe her, "You won!"
"No," panted Saya, "I ran. They were everywhere, Dad, everywhere. And Rain..."
"Rain?" her father whispered. He stared out the window in the direction of Hyrule Castle. He released his daughter. Holding onto her still-shaking shoulders, blue eyes met blue as Link asked, "Prince Rain? Zelda's son?"
Saya began to calm down as the dream left her. "Queen Zelda had a son?" she asked, "A boy named Rain?"
"Yes," Link replied, "He would be about the same age as you...a little younger, I think."
"Brown hair? Green eyes?"
"From what I saw of him as a baby, yes. Why?"
"I-I had this dream. He was running out of the castle to see me. He...said he wanted to play. Then this huge thing, like, a-a...skeleton just came out of the ground! I tried to run, but more kept showing up. Then there was this laugh, and...it was really scary," she finished lamely.
"I think you've been listening to too many of your father's 'warrior-days' stories. Some of them are a little scary for even me!" Navi said, landing on Saya's shoulders, "I've spent my share of nights wondering just how we got out of some of those messes."
"But Navi, I've never heard of some of the monsters she's describing. I'd be inclined to agree with you but for one thing," Link reasoned, stroking Saya's hair to calm both of them down.
"What 'one thing'?" Navi asked skeptically.
"She mentioned Rain."