"Link! Link! Come on! Sadie's in town! Come on!!" Tired, a groggily eyed Link opened his eyes.
"Owww, the sun! Malon, Malon! Stop hitting me!"
"She's here!" Malon squealed. "She's here! Come on, get up!"
"Alright! I'll be right there. Go wait outside". As Malon went to wait out at the front door Link got out of bed and went to the privy. When he got back he did his hygienic ordeals and got dressed.
"Took ya long enough" said Malon impatiently as Link made his way through the arch from the hut.
"Whatever", he mumbled still half asleep and they made their way through the ranch to Sadie's cottage. Sadie was an interesting character; she always had something up her sleeve. Link could remember her since he could remember. She came and went from Lon Lon Ranch as she pleased, always bringing knick knacks from afar. The thing that puzzled him the most about her was that she seemed so old, every time he saw her she had some how seemed to age a couple years, yet her mind was sharper than anyone in the village and, rumor had it, when she was young she had out-witted the king, in his prime, at his own mind twister. Not only once, but three times in a row and nobody's ever beaten the king. Link always had had some questions to ask her but somehow he always forgot them when he was with her. This time he was determined not to forget any of them.
"Link look! She's in! Come on… race ya!" And they were off.
"Cheater" said Link, both gasping for breath
"Psh, whatever", answered Malon playfully
"You got a head start!" complained Link
"Whatever loser. Now come on!" Malon tapped on the outside wall of the cottage.
"Let your self in you lazy cod pieces!"(HINT HINT Shakespearean insult.) Oh yeah, another thing about Sadie, her tongue was as sharp if not sharper then her mind. As they entered her home they smelled her garden out back. There, near the fireplace, sat Sadie.
"Malon! Is that you? I hardly recognized you! What are you now, sixteen?"
Malon nodded
"You're turning into quiet the pretty gem…" said Sadie raising an eyebrow with a look of mischief "Oh that's right, silly me. I brought my horse with me, Will, I think I broke his foot though..."
Before Malon had a chance to reply to the compliment she ran out back mumbling something about how that horse was even still alive. Sadie got up and took some pastries out from the fireplace.
"Link", she said expectantly
"Sadie it's so great to see you…"He started and they discussed many topics till midday.
"How's your training?" asked Sadie after a pause in their discussion.
"Fine", replied Link
"Every day? Everything I taught you?"
"We'll not everything…"
"Ah, oh yes. I just remembered," interrupted Sadie "how are your dreams lately?"
"There fine." said Link plainly, not feeling like discussing his dreams either with her at the moment.
"Oh come now, we've shared are dreams since forever so tell".
"Well…" He hesitated, his dreams were always weird and got weirder by the year and he didn't quite feel like telling Sadie right now, but then again…
"I can tell you have something to do with how you got here. What is it?"
"How do you know?"
"Just spit it out dear"
"All right". Thrown off guard, yet again. You'd think his 13 year old self would start getting the gist of this lady.
"Lately I've been having these dreams about this kid not much older than me, but I can never understand what he's saying and he wants to tell me something but every time I wake and he this time I heard him mention you and he did this motion." And he played out the motion with his hands. Sadie then suddenly stopped playing with her pastry. She suddenly looked ill.
"Let me see your left hand" she said quickly examining his hand
"Is something the matter?" He asked nervously.
"I don't know, I just fell a little funny, nothing a little rest can't heal."
"Uhh okay". This startled him. Sadie never got sick, ever.
"Ugh, I don't suppose you would mind stopping by later would you?" she said holding her stomach.
"No not at all, I'll go get Malon." With that he went outside to retrieve the little ball of fury
"Hey. I just finished stinting the leg, now it's my turn with Sadie" Malon said seeing Link approach
"Hey uh actually Sadie asked if we could come back later". He said while pushing her out of the stall.
"But I don't want to go". She argued. And they left with Link arguing with Malon all the way back. As an angry Malon went home to help tend to the new horse, Link decided to go over to the farm area of Lon Lon Ranch to see if they needed any help with there irrigational system. The system was pretty new and it cost a little more than what most people were willing to pay, but his friend Sam said it eventually would pay itself off. As Link arrived at the land he saw Sam's father, Ted, working in the field. Link ran up to see if he could help out any.
"Good afternoon Link."
"Hi Ted, I was wondering if you needed any help at all?"
"Well, I did need to run to Susan Anthony, but since you offered I guess you could run to her and get my package for me and that would save my time like crazy, so would you mind?"
"Not at all, I'll be back in a few minutes" And with that Will was off to head over to the other side of the village to get the package. Susan Anthony ran the mail for the ranch and was noted as one of the finest in her field. Being a ranch of approximately 715 mail wasn't scarce. Throughout the rest of the day he helped people all around, not having any work to do at home he decided to be useful. Will lived with the village washer but she was hardly around because she had to maintain her laundry mats all over the land. Unfortunately all he could think about the rest of the day was the way Sadie reacted. She must have been really sick. That night he promised himself that he would go visit her all day tomorrow no matter what she said.