I don't know how long I was out for, but when I woke up, my head was pounding in pain and my body was stiff from laying in an awkward position. Sharp pains would shoot throughout my body with every breath I took which very much encouraged me to just stop breathing. A cold gust of wind chilled my already freezing wet clothes. But at least I'm alive.

I sat up from the riverbank in a different location from where I started and looked around. Trees, trees, and more trees as far as the eye could see. The faint trickling of the water beside eased my nerves a bit, but not enough. Sitting here wondering where I am isn't going to do much for my situation, so I might as well try to to figure it out on my own.

Early morning birds chirped around me as I tried to stand up, getting dizzy instantly afterwards. I stumbled over a small incline, following the stream down a path. Eventually the stream narrowed down and the path ended in what looked like a small village. The sun was still fighting it's way over the trees in the distance and the dim light made it hard to see.

The toll from the short walk here finally caught up to me and knocked me back down with pain. My head hurt tremendously and blood was still leaking out of the gash caused by the rock. I tried my best to stay awake as the dark spots clouded over my eyes and sent me into another period of darkness.

When I woke up again, I felt different. The various cuts and bruises that I'm sure covered my body after the fall didn't hurt me as much and my head felt better, especially on the spot that was hit on the rock. I opened my eyes and looked around, noticing I had once again moved to a new location. Instead of a river by me and houses scattered around, I was laying on a soft thing and it was actually warm. Inside one of the houses. I was still wearing my slightly damp clothes however and it took a good bit of the comfort out of the whole situation.

"Oh, good. You're awake. I must say, we were all quite worried if you ever would wake up. I'm Uli, and my husband Rusl is the one who found you" an extremely pregnant woman says, smiling at me. She looked as if at any given moment she would pop out a smaller version of herself on the floor. I shifted away from her just in case.

"How long have I been here?" I ask miss pregnant. I sat up slowly to prevent another episode of dizziness.

"Quite a while. You've been asleep for about two days now, ever since we found you out by the river." I nod. Two days plus however long I was out for the first time. Just thinking about it makes me wonder how I made it so long.

My stomach growled, reminding me I still needed to eat. Then I noticed how dry my mouth was. Uli left me to myself for a moment saying she would be right back and I took this opportunity to look around a bit. She lived in a nice little house with a pretty rug by the door, a warm fireplace behind me, and a table on the other side of the room.It didn't seem like her husband was here at the moment, which meant we were alone. I looked over and noticed my bag, bow, and arrows by the wall. Only about four of the twelve arrows remained and I'm sure my food is ruined and some rupees were lost as well.

Uli returned holding a tray of food and a cup and set it down in a chair by the sofa I was sitting on, doing a motion for me to take whatever I wanted from it. Almost immediately I grabbed the cup from the tray and drank its contents to soothe my dry throat. She smiled and retrieved a pitcher of water from the table and refilled the cup for me. I smiled back in thanks and took another long sip from the cup, this time making sure to slow down as to not drink it so quickly.

"So what's your name sweety? Where are you from?" she asks politely, setting me off a little. Politeness wasn't something I was used to, especially from the people in Castle Town. It was strange yet...pleasant. Honestly, if I didn't know I'd have to go back to how things used to be, I could get used to this whole being nice thing.

"My name is Rheikah and I'm from Castle Town." Her eyes widened at my words.

"But that's so far away! How did you end up here, in a river of all places?" she questions me. I was really hoping she wouldn't ask that. No one should have to worry about whatever the hell that stuff was.

"I was walking..through Faron woods and I um..I fell. I'm actually quite clumsy sometimes" I say. It wasn't a complete lie. I was going through Faron woods and I can be clumsy on occations, just not often are both happening at the same time. Uli nodded quietly, taking in the information.

I took a piece of bread from the tray of food and looked it over. If she was going to kill me, she would have done it sooner. That logic in mind, I bit into the warm fluffyness. It was nothing like bread in Castle Town, which was usually slightly overcooked and overpriced. This bread was soft and tasted absolutely amazing. I sighed in content, grinning peacefully.

Uli laughed, awkwardly lifting herself from the chair to take the tray into the kitchen.

"We sent a letter to Link this morning, telling him about your situation. He should be on his way here now to come see you for himself."

"What did the letter say?" I ask confused. If someone cared enough to come see me because of a letter, it must be one urgent letter.

"Just what we knew at the time: that a strange girl showed up in the river unconsious. It explained how we thought you might be waking up soon enough and if not, we would need him to take you to a doctor." she explains. I nod.

"So who is Link?" I ask just as some guy dressed in green clothes bursts through the door unannounced. He looks around the room until his eyes land on me and my delicious bread. Before he could take my bread away, I shoved another mouthful in my face so he definately knew it was mine. Or maybe I'm just hungry. Either way he's not getting the bread.

"Link, nice to see you again! This is our guest, Rheikah. Rheikah, this young man is Link." Uli says, smiling as usual. I looked 'Link' over from head to toe. He had dark blonde hair tucked away in a green hat, he wore a green tunic, brown pants and some brown boots. His eyes were something completely different from anything I've ever seen. They were blue, much unlike the people in Castle Town. They looked like sapphires shining in place of his eyes.

"Hello" I say, my red tinted brown eyes staring into his bright blue ones. He nods at me, mumbling out a brief 'hey'. I don't think his eyes have left me once since he first saw me, and even though I'm used to people staring at me, his gaze feels sort of intimidating. Like he's trying to figure out if I'm going to just jump up and murder Uli with my bread.

"Now, you two stay here and talk a bit while I go tell everyone Rheikah is awake. Link, you be nice to this one. She's from Castle Town. Maybe you could give her a ride home on Epona." Uli says and leaves her home, and me alone with Link. At first the silence was a bit awkward but Link eventually broke it.

"So you're from Castle Town?" he asks a bit formally. Like this was an interview and he was the one with something at stake. I nodded up to him, saying a quick 'yeah'. He didn't look much older than me, and if that was the case there's no reason for him to be so serious. He's still a kid, he should act like it.

"You've seen it, haven't you?" he asks suddenly. Scenes of the castle being consumed by the dark aura flashed through my mind. I nodded again.

"Yeah. It was everywhere...covering everything.." I say. Link looked at me with a face of confusion. Once again, too serious. Maybe he just needs to be knocked off his pedestal of urgency for a while..

"The twilight. It turns the people it touches into spirits." he says

"So..?"

"How did you get here?" I raised an eyebrow at the blonde boy's vague question.

"Well you see, when a mommy and daddy love each other very much the—"

"That's not what I meant!" he says, a small blush covering his cheeks. I chuckled at him.

"Sure it wasn't"