YAY! Finally a decent sized chapter, sorry for the wait but this site had been VERY annoying lately and it's been down a bit, please read, review and enjoy!

There was much chatter as the two travelled, both of them being a little observant of their surroundings, if Ganondorf was back then they would have to be wary at all times – consistently cautious of every step they made, put simply, they couldn't put their guard down.

Sometime around noon they sat down for a rest on a hollow tree that had fallen over years ago, it was now covered in a thick layer of bushy green moss. Tala subconsciously scratched at her side as she watched Link once again rummage though his bag to pull out what appeared to be food, this food was nothing like Tala was used to, she usually lived on a diet of meat and breads and the occasional veggie when she could get her paws on it.

The food that Link had passed to her was like some absurd variety of fruit, soft skin and sweet taste, the outside shell of the provisions seemed to have a coconut flavour. Tala ate hungrily, although perhaps desiring something with a little more iron she made no complaints as she finished.

Link too was eating the Hyrulian delicacy, this food was a delightful snack – perhaps the equivalent to a healthy, rich mud cake in modern times. Link looked over to Tala, seeing her face close-up this time. A few small freckles on her nose…a small scar above her left eyebrow – perhaps from battle against other wolves and what amazed Link most were her ears…so different, very much unlike the elfish way. They weren't long, almost flat and instead of a point the ear curved over slightly. He had never seen ears like this in Hyrule before.

"Strange ears for an elf," he brought up, he was rather curious – he wanted to know more about them.

"I'm not an elf," she told him, "I am human," she looked at his puzzled expression, telling her he had never heard of the term 'human' before, "A human is very similar to an elf I suppose, except we aren't very familiar with magic, making it very hard for us to learn," she explained in the simplest terms possible, "I'm guessing not many of us exist in Hyrule"

Tala subconsciously scratched at her side and looked at Link, their eyes met for a moment until Tala looked away.

"Don't do that," Link said, obviously talking about her constant scratching, "You'll only make it worse," Tala stopped and lifted up her tunic a tad exposing the wound from last night on her waist, it had been itchy…irritating, but this was a good sign – it meant it was healing.

"I'm sorry about that," said Link awkwardly, "I really never meant to-" but he was cut off.

"It's ok, I know you didn't do it deliberately," Tala smiled and then something on Link's back grabbed her attention, "Are you an archer?" she asked, gazing at the fairy bow and the set of bows in the sack strapped to his back. Link nodded and Tala grinned as she leapt over to his back and grabbed the bow and a few arrows, she set them up and pointed the loaded bow towards a tree, "Watch this!" she called over her shoulder.

Link blinked and watched as the young woman rummaged through his sack, grabbing necessary items, he observed uneasily knowing that this wasn't really going to be 'suave'.

The arrow was released, but it did not hit it's chosen target, actually it went straight for a pile of rocks, skimming against one, rebounding against another and was soon heading in the opposite direction, Tala jumped out of the way as the arrow hurled towards Link, narrowly missing his head, pinning his green hat to the tree behind him instead.

Tala's hands shot for her mouth as she gasped, "Holy fu-…cow!" she cried, refraining herself from swearing, Link stared back at her, wide eyed and obviously in a bit of shock, he let out a sigh of relief as he slipped from his seat on the rotten tree and slowly let himself fall to the ground, "I'm so, so sorry," Tala whimpered

"It's ok," Link told her, "I should've known that was going to happen…you were aiming the arrow in the wrong direction"

Tala snorted and looked at him stubbornly, "No I wasn't!" she contradicted.

"Yes," he said firmly, "you were, secondly, you were holding the bow in the wrong way, not to mention that you didn't even set it up right…"

Tala opened her mouth to argue, but it seemed as if she was unable to speak, so she promptly closed it, allowing Link to speak instead.

"Look, let me show you," he said standing up, he grabbed the arrow from it's place – implanted deep into the tree and strode over to Tala and took the bow from her hands, setting the bow and arrow up properly, Tala watched intently as Link handed them to her, "Hold these for a sec," he said as he went over to the tree and unsheathed his sword. He carved a small cross into the tree, causing sap to leak from it – obviously the 'target' was the middle of the cross in the tree.

Link came back and stood behind Tala, he held her hands gently and rested his head on her shoulder as he showed her the correct form, "You're too tense, let your arms relax…archery has nothing to do with force, it's all to do with you and the target," he continued, guiding her hands so that the arrow was ready to be released. Tala blushed lightly as his body drew closer to hers.

"Now release," Link whispered in her ear as he let go of her hands and moved away from her.

The arrow went flying – straight and true, it landed itself in the centre of the 'X'. Tala smiled slightly with accomplishment, "You're very good," she admitted.

"I've had lots of practise and experience – even I was bad when I first started," he said smirking.

Tala snorted.

"Ok, ok…perhaps not as bad as you," he confessed, "You just need to learn and you'll be fine,"

"Can you teach me?" she questioned

"Yes, but not now, we've wasted a lot of time, I was meant to be home early this morning, now its mid afternoon – we should get a move on"

Tala nodded in agreement as they packed up their gear, took the arrow from it's roost and continued on their journey.

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