As I look around the Temple which had been so involved in my life on the earth, a flood of memories come back to me. Memories of playing in the Kokiri Forest, petty gossip with my girlfriends, my love for the Great Deku Tree, the sight of a newborn fairy, of breaking up fights between Mido and Link.

Ah. Link…I miss you, Link…

I played in the sand underneath the boughs of the Great Deku Tree, trying to eavesdrop on the conversation that the Great Tree was having with an outsider woman that had somehow come in with a baby. It was beyond me how the outsider woman had come into our Forest in the first place, but she looked awfully pretty. But there was a great amount of blood on her torso. I had never seen blood or the gashes they came from in my entire life. They deeply disturbed me. For some odd reason, I hoped that they were coming from the woman and not from the squirming baby in her delicate arms.

I could tell from a distance that the baby was a darling child. He had duck-fuzz hair, and his curled hands shook when he cried. I noted that for a young baby, he was very aware of what was happening around him. I believe that he was crying for his mother. Even as an innocent child that I was then, I saw that her injuries were fatal and that she did not have long to live.

As I finished this last thought, the woman collapsed onto her side, still holding the baby tightly.

"Saria." The Great Deku Tree called me. "Take the child and care for him as long as he shall need it."

I jumped up to obey, and ran over to the dead woman. But I hesitated as I approached. I had never seen an outsider before, let alone a dead one, and I had certainly never touched a dead outsider.

"Fear not, dear one. The woman cannot hurt you. Pick the child up."

I gently slid the baby out from his mother's arms. He was wailing, but as I looked beneath the blanket he was wrapped in, I could see no visible marks on his skin. He relaxed his tiny muscles the minute I cuddled him to my bosom and his cries dwindled to quiet whimpers.

I turned to the Great Deku Tree. "What do I do with a baby?"

"If he is hungry, feed juices him from the fruits of my branches. When he is sleepy, sing him to sleep with your song. When he is fussy, massage his neck and back until he calms."

"Can he have a fairy?" I queried.

The Great Deku Tree sighed and his leaves rustled with the noise. "This child is special. I feel it in the Forest's elements. I don't believe that he should have a fairy until the proper time comes."

This concerned me. "The other children will make fun of him. He won't be whole until he receives a fairy companion…."

"I know, child, I know. But a special child takes a special fairy, and it will take time for me to create a fairy to match his gifts and strengths. It took two and ten years for me to create a fairy for you, little one."

I sat down stunned. The baby in my arms was sucking on his fingers noisily and was starting to drift into sleep.

"Why did it take that long, Great Deku Tree?"

"Because it took that long to read your destiny and create you with the strengths you needed to fulfill that destiny."

Now I was more confused than ever. As soon as Kokiri children were created, a fairy was quickly matched to them to be their companions for eternity. A fairy and a child were created simultaneously, and the fairy was made to reflect the same power as the child had. Did it take that long to create me?

"When will you start on the baby's fairy?" I asked.

"I already have." The Great Deku Tree answered.

I nodded, but I was not fully satisfied, and began to walk out of the Great Deku Tree's meadow to bring him to my house. I remembered something.

"Does he have a name?"

"No," came the answer.

"May I name him?"

"You may, child."

I thought for a moment.

"He shall be called Link, because he came from the outside and now lives among the Kokiri. He is the link between our two worlds."

"It is good." The Deku Tree said.

I smiled, looked down at the baby, and walked to my house.