The Legend of Zelda: The Guardian of Sages

Chapter Two: Dark

Carrie and Link begin to walk out of the Temple of Time. Once outside, Carrie takes in a deep breath. Link then looks to her, "Where to first?"

Carrie looks to Link, "Rauru said I needed to go to the lady that deals in Poes."

Link's eyes widened, "Oh! I know where that is! It's just on the way out of the Market."

Carrie nods, "Yeah......I know."

Link then walks on ahead. Carrie sighs, "Do we have to go back that way?"

Link stops and turns to face her, "Well......it is the only way out."

Carrie sighs, knowing it was true. Suddenly, she heard a small child-like voice, "Hey!!!"

Carrie's eyes widened, knowing who and what it was. A blue orb, with two small fairy wings, began to fly in an up and down motion, making jingle sounds with every movement. Link's eyes widened, "Navi!"

Navi bounces up and down, "Tell me....is it really her?! Is it really the Guardian of Sages?!"

Link chuckles and nods, "Yup. That's her."

Navi flies right up to Carrie's face. Navi nods, "Hello!"

Carrie smiles, "Uhh.....hi."

Navi makes a jingle noise, "I'm Navi."

Carrie nods, "Hi....I'm Carrie."

Navi bounces up and down again, "I can't believe we finally found her!! I can't believe it!!"

Carrie chuckles a little, "Heh heh....."

Navi then turns to Link, "Hey! Listen! Maybe we should go see the Poe Lady to see what she has to say about this!"

Carrie places a hand on her face and whispers lowly to herself, "Oh great......I should've figured as much. Navi's bullshit advice with hints on where we should go."

Link smiles at Navi, "We're headed there right now."

Navi bounces up and down, "Hurraay!! Let's go!"

Link chuckles as Navi flies on ahead. Link then walks on as Carrie follows behind. As soon as Link saw the Redead, he played his Sun Song again. The Redead froze into the cacoon-like state once again. Link turns and holds his hand out to Carrie, "Nothing more to be afraid of. Since you are still not use to this......I thought we'd take the easy way out."

Carrie smiles and takes Link's hand, "That's very kind of you."

Link nods, "I try."

Carrie's smile widens. Link then leads her through the Redead and to the entrance of the Castle Gates where they came from. Navi is seen bouncing up and down in front of a door beside the gates. Link then goes to it and opens the door and allows Carrie to enter in first.

As soon as they enter, the room is nothing but darkness with dim torches on the walls for light. In front of them, was a hooded figure, with what seem to be one glowing red eye, draped in a purple cape with a white robe that was barely visable, baring the mark of the Triforce on the figure's belt. The figure was also holding a small staff. The figure was sitting on a bed, dangling their bare feet that had red nail polish on the toe nails.

Above the figure was floating colours of fire-like balls with different facial expressions on them. They were all hovering near a big cage perched up on a shelf above the figure. One was green with a sad face, a few others were yellow with happy faces, and there was a pink one with an angry face.

The figure looks up and sees Link. A small, slithery, dark-like voice leaves the figure, "Ahh......Link. Do you have a Poe for me today?"

Link shakes his head, "Not today. I got something better."

The figure looks to see Carrie. The figure extends an arm out and gestures with their index finger, "Come closer, child."

Carrie walks closer to the point she stood right in front of the figure. The figure takes a good look at Carrie, "Ahhh.........my, my, my! Carrie your name is. You are the Guardian of Sages that Hyrule keeps gossiping about. Heh heh........I thought you might come. No one said anything about you being beautiful though. You are very perceptive and intelligent. Strong too."

Carrie's eyes widened. The figure laughs, "Surprised?"

Carrie shakes her head, "Not really. You can read people's minds and you specialize in Poes. You are the Poe Lady. The only one in Hyrule."

The Poe Lady pauses. She then says, "Hmf! I also heard you are a know-at-all as well. I did not think it was true. But then again......it is nice to get recognized once in a while. Anyways....I know why you are here. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time now."

Carrie looks at the Poe Lady, "So......you're able to help us?"

The Poe Lady looks at Carrie, "Us? Who said I wanted to help all of you? I am only to help you, my dear. Nothing more."

Carrie looks back at Link. He nods in acceptance. Carrie then turns back to the Poe Lady. She then sighs and jumps off her bed and walks to the right side of the room, "I know I stored it somewhere. Now where is it?"

The Poe Lady then begins to dig into a wooden box. She then throws different things behind her, being clear that they weren't the items she was looking for. The Poe Lady throws a blanket behind her, then a lantern, and then a rubber ducky. She then grunts, "How did that get there? Oh well."

She then throws back a picture of Hyrule Castle. She then says joyfully, "Ah!! Here it is!!"

The Poe Lady then walks back to Carrie with a bright purple box that was fair sized. She blows on it, getting as much dust off of it as possible. She then places it on the bed and opens it up. The first thing she pulls out is a very dark purple tunic. She then shows it to Carrie, "This here........is called the Poe's Tunic. As soon as you put it on.....it allows you to see Poes, even when they turn invisable! It also allows you to talk to them as well. Hee hee hee!!"

She then hands it to Carrie along with a black pair of loose looking pants to go with it and a small brown leather belt. The Poe Lady then pulls out black boots with greyish fur sticking out from the insides and silver laces wrapped all around them. She then says, "And these......these are known as the Shadow Boots. They allow you to walk on the very depths of darkness without falling!! Tee hee!!"

She then hands the pair of Shadow Boots to Carrie. She then pulls out a long black cloak with a hood. The Poe Lady then says, "This......oh this is the magic Cloak of Darkness!! It allows you to seep into the shadows when you cover yourself with it, allowing you to blend into the darkest of night! Hee!"

She then hands it to Carrie, now having a small pile in her arms. She then gets out dark purple gauntlets with a lining of a red eye on each one. The Poe Lady then turns to Carrie, "Lastly.....these. These are the Night Realm Gauntlets. These allow you to lift the lies off of one's soul. You'll see things that no one else could. These also lead you to lost things as well!"

She then puts it on top of the pile in Carrie's arms. Carrie's eyes widened, "W-wow.....thank you so much!!"

The Poe Lady nods, "Ohh please. It is nothing at all."

The Poe Lady quickly puts a small brown pouch on top of Carrie's pile, "Oh....you'll need a money pouch!"

The Poe Lady then looks at Link, "Don't just stand there! Go outside so this girl can change!"

Link's eyes widened, "Oh! Okay."

He then opens the door and goes outside.

After a few moments of waiting, Link was leaning against the wall outside where the gate is. The door to the Poe Lady's house opens. Link walks a few steps towards the opening door.

Carrie comes out in her new attire. She then looks inside the door, "Thanks again."

The Poe Lady shouts back, "Don't forget.....you can come back here anytime!"

Carrie nods and smiles, "Okay. Farewell."

The Poe Lady then says, "Good luck!"

Carrie then closes the door behind her. She now wore a dark purple tunic, with a thin, brown leather belt around her waist with the brown money pouch attached to it. She also had a dark red sash wrapped around and having in flow down near her feet. She also wore the loose black pants with somewhat puffed out cuffs at the bottom, sort of like desert pants, with her black boots with the bits of fur visable at the ends and the silver laces wrapping all around her boots and tied at the top. Her cloak hung down a few inches from the ground, with a collar covering her neck from it.

Link's eyes widened when he looked her over. Carrie smiles, "How do you like it?"

Link then noticed that Carrie's hair was done too. It was now done into a long, tight braid hanging just below the back of her neck. Her bangs were spiked out as well and her silver hoop earrings were now visable. Link then smiles, "Wow. You look good. You look like you were raised in these lands!"

Carrie smiles, "Thanks! It's great isn't it?"

She then twirls in a small circle, allowing her cloak to flow further. She then smirks and cracks her knuckles, revealing her dark purple gauntlets with the red linings designed into an eye on each side, "Let's go!"

Link smiles, "Right."

Navi bounces up and down, "Yay!"

Carrie and Link then run out of the Castle Gates and back to where Epona was waiting for them. Link then looks to Carrie, "Where did you put your old clothes?"

Carrie smiles, "Poe Lady said she'd keep them for me till I want them back."

Link smiles, "That's swell."

Carrie nods, "Yeah. It's awesome!"

Link raises an eyebrow, "Awesome? What does that mean?"

Carrie's jaw drops. She then sighs, "Well.....where I come from.....we use the word awesome if something really, really great happens."

Link's eyes widened, "Ooh! Awesome. Hmm......I might use that someday."

Carrie shakes her head and chuckles. Link then said, "Where to next?"

Carrie then said, "Rauru said after I get my attire, we are to go to the Lon Lon Ranch."

Link nods and then said, "Alright. Off we go then."

Carrie smiles, "Okay! Let's go!"

Link then helps Carrie onto the horse once again. He then climbs on and whips the bridle, "Hi-ya!!"

Epona then turns and begins to run towards the Lon Lon Ranch, which was located in the very center of Hyrule Field. Carrie then wraps her arms around Link's waist again. Link smiles a bit as he felt Carrie's warmth press up against him from behind. Link then shouts, "Hi-ya!!"

Epona then began to run faster across the field. Carrie then looks around as the land began to darken with the sky. The sky began to turn into a dim blue, indicating the beginning of nightfall. Link then says, "We better hurry, the Stalchilds will be out soon."

Carrie nods, knowing what Stalchilds were, "Okay."

Stalchilds were creatures that only came out at night in Hyrule Fields. They were child-sized skeletons with red eyes. Easy to defeat, but numbers were troublesome at times.

The Lon Lon Ranch finally came into view as Epona ran further. Link smiles, "We have arrived."

Carrie sees the Lon Lon Ranch and smiles too. Ahead was a path leading into the Lon Lon Ranch. Epona then runs through it. As soon as they entered through, there was two buildings on each side and up ahead was a giant field with small fencing around it. The ranch itself, where horses and cows could run. Link then steers Epona towards the large ranch area. He then pulls the bridle, "Woah!"

Epona then stops in front of the wooden fencing. Link then jumps off Epona. Carrie then jumps down as well. Link was quick enough to make sure he was there to catch her. Link smiles, "There we are."

Carrie smiles, "Thanks....you don't have to keep doing that."

Link smiles softly, "I know. But.......I want to."

Carrie smiles more, "You're sweet, Link."

Link blushes a little. He then turns away, "Forget it. It's no trouble at all."

Link then takes off Epona's bridle and puts it over a fence railing. Epona then began to run around the ranch, enjoying her moments of freedom. Carrie then goes up beside Link, watching Epona run, "I wish life were that easy."

Link smiles, still looking at Epona, "Sometimes.......me too."

He then turns his head and looks at Carrie. She then turns her head to look back at him. They found one another smiling at each other. Link then said, "Carrie?"

Carrie then says softly, "Yes..........Link?"

Link then noticed how deep and dark Carrie's eyes were. For a moment, he found himself lost in them. Dazzling and glimmering with the dim lights in the blue dark of the night. As Link went to open his mouth to say something, a soft, melodic voice was heard, "Fairy Boy!!!"

Carrie and Link both turn to see a girl with long, sunset orange hair and deep blue eyes walking towards them. She wore a dress with a white upper part and a bright pink lower part. She had a yellow handkerchief wrapped around her neck while she had a leather brown apron wrapped around her waist. She also wore brown boots. She walked right up to them. Link then turns around fully, "Malon...."

Carrie's eyes widened. Malon was far more beautiful in person. Carrie then smiles, with Malon being her favourite girl character in the entire game. Malon then puts her hands behind her back, "Didn't think I'd see you here.......at least not for a while."

Link smiles, "Well.....I'm here now."

Malon then notices Carrie. Her eyes widened a bit. She then looks back at Link, "Who's your friend, Fairy Boy?"

Link then turns to Carrie and smiles, "Malon.......this is Carrie."

Carrie steps forward and smiles, "Hi, Malon."

Malon nods, "Hi. I don't think I ever saw you around here before."

Carrie smiles, "It's because I'm not from around here."

Malon smiles brightly, "Really? A newcomer! Wow. Where're you from?"

Carrie then puts a hand on the back of her head, "Uhh......some place far, far from here."

Malon nods, "Wow. Must be quite a ways!"

Carrie nods, "Oh, believe me, it is."

Malon giggles a little. She then says, "Are you sure you are not from around here?"

Carrie then raises an eyebrow, "What do you mean?"

Malon then says, "Well......from what I can see.......you look a litte tanned. A lot similar to a Gerudo."

Carrie's eyes widened, knowing what Gerudos were. A band of desert thieves that only had women for members. One of Carrie's favourite races in Zelda. She felt honoured. Before Carrie went to say anything, Malon then said, "And your clothes......they look like they belong to Sheikah."

Carrie's eyes widened even more. Sheikah were a lost race of shadow people with very high cunning skills in fighting and hiding. Another one of Carrie's favourite races in the game. To be compared to two of her favourite races in one day, indeed an honour. Before Carrie went to say anything, Link then says, "The clothes were a gift from a friend of ours. Carrie's here to help us."

Malon's eyes widened, "Help us?"

Link nods, "Yes. She is the Guardian of Sages."

Malon lets out a big gasp. She then looks at Carrie, "I-it's an honour to meet the Guardian of Sages!!"

She then goes in front of Carrie and grabs her hands, "Are you really here to help us?!"

Carrie smiles and flips their hands, so Carrie is holding Malon's. She nods, "Of course I am. Why else would I be here?"

Malon smiles, "You are also beautiful, Guardian."

Carrie smiles, blushing a little, "You are too, Malon."

Malon blushes and smiles, "And why has the Guardian come to this place? Of all places?"

Carrie smiles, "I was told I could find a steed here to help me on our journies."

Malon's face brigthened, "Oh!! Yes! You can find one here! We have lots of horses!"

Malon then lets her hands slip out of Carrie's hands. She turns, "Just this way....."

She then walks towards one of the buildings, which Carrie knew was the barn, and opens the door. Malon turns with a smile, "In here."

Carrie and Link then follow Malon inside. As soon as Carrie set foot into the barn, she gasped. She sees tons of stalls on one side of the room and then the other. One side had horse after horse in most of the stalls. The otherside had cows in them. Malon then goes through them, "Well....here they are."

Carrie looks each of them over. Malon goes to a goldish looking horse, "This is Braun. He's our strongest and most trusting of others."

Carrie smiles and pets Braun's nose. Braun closes his eyes in content. Malon smiles, seeing Braun liked Carrie right away. Malon walks to the next horse. It was a very dark brown one, "This one is Lan. He's our smartest horse of all."

Carrie smiles once more, petting Lan's nose as well. Lan closes his eyes, loving Carrie's touch. Malon smiles again. As she was about to move onto the next one, a big bashing sound was heard. Carrie and Link jumped a little. They look over to see a closed stall, where no one couldn't see into it. Malon sighs, "Don't mind that. It's just Dark kicking again."

Carrie looks, "Dark?"

Malon nods, "Yeah. Unfortunately.....he's our most aggressive horse. Not a very good one to own. Wilder than a storm, I'll tell ya that. Can't even come close to taming him properly. He never listens nor does he want anyone near him."

Carrie looks over at the closed stall. She then looks to Malon, "I want to see him."

Malon's eyes widened, "Umm......I don't think that's a very good idea."

Carrie then says, "Please. Let me see him."

Malon sighs, "Okay.......brace yourself."

Link then says, "Are you sure you want to see an aggressive horse, Carrie?"

Carrie then says, "Trust me. I have a feeling."

Malon then goes to the stall gate, "Ready?"

Carrie goes in front of it and nods, "Yeah."

Malon sighs and unlocks the gate. She then slowly opens it. Carrie's eyes widened at the sight. It was a big, black, and beautiful looking horse, all chained up with rope wrapped around his mouth and nose. Carrie gasped, "H-how could you tie up a horse like that?!"

Malon frowns, "We had to.....otherwise he was going to hurt someone."

Carrie places a hand on her mouth, being against animal cruelty all of her life. Dark then struggles, kicking everywhere he could, pulling and heaving himself. Carrie then walks closer. Malon gasps, "Be careful!"

Carrie ignores Malon. She then steps closer to the black horse, whispering, "It's okay.....I'm here to help."

Dark looks down at Carrie. He tries to back away, unsure on what was gonna happen. Carrie looked Dark over. He was a fairly muscular horse. Terrific shape. His chest was bold and his hooves were big compared to the other horses. Carrie then sticks her hand out, "Come on.......no one's gonna hurt you."

Dark then struggles more. Malon's eyes widened. Link gasps, "Careful!"

Carrie then grabs hold of the rope on Dark's nose. She then unties it and tosses it aside. Dark then shakes his head out. He then looks at Carrie. The two made direct eye contact. They had to same eyes. Deep and dark brown with hints of black. Carrie looks back at Dark, "Don't be frightened. I came to take you away from here."

Dark makes a small grunting sound. Malon gasps, "I don't believe it."

Carrie then says, "Get the keys to these chains."

Malon nods, "Okay."

Malon then runs over to a wall with a hook with keys on it. She then takes the keys and runs back to the stall. She pauses, feeling nervous, unsure of what Dark's next actions would be. Carrie grabs the chains. She then looks at Malon and holds her hand out, "Throw them."

Malon nods and tosses the keys to Carrie. She then catches them in her palm. Carrie then turns and starts to unlock the chains. As soon as she does, she drops the keys and takes the chains off of Dark. Carrie then tosses the chains aside. Carrie then takes a step back as Dark shakes himself free. Dark then pauses and looks down at Carrie.

Malon gasps as Link takes a step back. Carrie then looks up at Dark. She then smiles nervously, "Hi......I'm Carrie."

Dark makes a deep snorting sound. He then walks up to Carrie. Malon gasps, "Oh no!!"

Carrie then puts her head down, now looking at the floor. Her heart began to race with thundering beats at a time. Dark then puts his snout on Carrie's hair. He takes in a deep whiff of her scent. He then puts his nose on the side of Carrie's face, bumping it to the side a little. He then begins to smell Carrie's scent even more. Dark grunts and flicks his tail. Carrie took a deep breath and closed her eyes. She then slowly puts a hand on the side of Dark's face as he continued smelling her. She then began to stroke his side as Dark made a small sound. Carrie then opened her eyes to look at Dark.

Malon's eyes widened. She then smiles, "Wow....."

Link's eyes widened as he smiled, "What do you know...."

Carrie smiles as she kept on petting Dark. She then turns to Malon, "I'll take this one!"

Malon smiles, "Never in my days have I seen someone tame a horse that quickly! I can tell that horse is gonna be happy with you. It looks like it's meant to be."

Carrie's smile widens as Dark nudges her with his nose. Carrie turns and pets his nose. Malon then places her hands on her hips, "Dark has really taken a liking to you. I didn't think he'd ever like anyone. Out of all the people in Hyrule.....I'm glad it's you. But then again, you ARE the Guardian of Sages. Always bringing peace to everyone around her, including animals. I hope he helps you greatly on your travels, Guardian."

Carrie's eyes widened. She then nods and smiles, "Th-thank you Malon. That's very kind and sweet of you. I promise I'll take good care of Dark."

Dark then nudges Carrie more. Malon giggles, "Or most likely he'll take care of you."

Carrie chuckles as she pets Dark more. Just then, a rowdy voice was heard, "What in tarnation?!!"

Everyone then turns to the door. There was a chubby looking man with a big, brown mustache. He also had a bald spot on the top of his head while he had a ponytail at the back. He had big brown eyes. He wore blue overalls, with a bright red shirt underneath, with brown knee pads, and thick brown shoes. Malon smiles, "Daddy!"

The man then says, "What's going on Malon?"

Before Malon could say anything, the man notices Link, "Oh, hey there, boy! Long time no see!"

Link nods with a wave, "Hello, Talon."

Talon smiles and then he gasps as soon as he saw Dark was loose, "Oh! By Din!! Who set Dark loose????!!!"

Malon smiles, "It's okay, Daddy. Dark's fine now."

Talon then sees Carrie. His eyes widened, "Oh. Hello there, young lady. And you are?"

Carrie walks up to Talon and shakes his hand, "Carrie, sir. Nice to meet you."

Talon laughs, "You don't have to call me sir! Talon's good enough."

Carrie smiles, "Alright......Talon."

Malon smiles widely, "Daddy.........Carrie is the Guardian of Sages."

Talon's eyes widened, "You're kidding!"

Malon shakes her head. Talon then looks to Carrie and smiles, "Well I'll be!! So you're the one Hyrule keeps talking about! What an honour!"

Carrie scratches the back of her head, "Uhh.....yeah...."

Malon smiles at Talon, "In a matter of seconds, Carrie tamed Dark."

Talon gasps, "Wow! No wonder Dark was loose when I came in!! Unbelievable!! You really are the true Guardian."

A small grumble was heard. Everyone then looks at Carrie. She holds her stomach, "Excuse me....."

Malon gasped, "We are my manners! You and Link must be hungry! Come on, we'll cook you some supper."

Carrie and Link smile at one another. Malon then says, "Uhh....what should we do with Dark?"

Carrie smiles, "Let me take care of that."

After a few moments, Dark was running outside with Epona. Carrie and Link were inside Talon and Malon's house eating dinner. The four sat at the dinner table. They had roast beef, corn on the cob, baked potato, and a nice glass of fresh milk. Carrie began to eat the roast beef first. It tasted tender and juicey in her mouth. She smiles, "Mmm....this is good. Thank you."

Malon smiles, "It's nothing."

Link began to eat his corn on the cob. Talon then starts to get more helpings of roast beef, "So, Carrie? How long have you been here?"

Carrie takes a sip of milk and then says, "I only arrived here today."

Talon nods, "Okay. How'd you meet up with the boy here?"

With that, he points from Carrie to Link. Carrie looks to Link and smiles, "Actually, he found me. He saved me from some Stalfos. I was grateful when he took me away to safety."

Talon smiles, "Well........that's swell at least."

Carrie still looks at Link, "Yes...it was."

Link smiles back at her. Malon's eyes widened a little when she saw the two look at one another. She felt a little hurt, a pinch of jealousy. She tried to shake it off, after all, Carrie was the Guardian and a new found friend. Malon then smiles, shaking every bad feeling aside.

Carrie then began to dig into her corn on the cob. She took big bites as she knawed across the cob. She then licks her lips, "Yumm!!"

Everyone in the room chuckled at Carrie's expressions on how good the food tasted. Carrie smiles nervously and chuckles with them.

After dinner, Carrie sat outside on the wooden fence that surrounded the ranch. She smiles as the sky became black and the moon rose in the air for all to see. She leans forward a bit as she watched Dark run along side Epona. Dark then sees Carrie watching. He then starts to run towards Carrie. Dark then stops right in front of Carrie and nudges his head into Carrie's arms. Carrie giggles as she then hugs her new horse. Dark grunts in content as Carrie began to pet the top of his head.

Link then walks out and leans against the nearest wall. He smiles as he watches Carrie and Dark. Malon then comes beside him, "Hey, Fairy Boy."

Link turns, "Hey."

Malon smiles, "So, how are you these days?"

Link sighs and shrugs, "Alright I guess."

Malon frowns a little, "Something's bothering you."

Link smiles a little, "What would you do if you found out that Hyrule's fate rested on your shoulders?"

Malon looks to the ground, "That is hard. But.....but at least Carrie's here to help."

Link sighs, "Yeah.....but......right now I am risking someone else's safety. I don't want that for Carrie. I may not know her very well.......but what I do know is that she does not deserve to have the same weight on her shoulders either."

Malon then looks at Link and then at Carrie, who was still petting Dark, "I see what you mean. But......no one should have to deal with it alone. I can tell that Carrie is a good person......I think she'll be able to handle the weight like you can. Usually that's rare to find two of a kind that can handle that kind of fate in their hands."

Link nods, "I know. Just because two can handle it, does not mean that both should have to go through it."

Malon sighs, "So you're saying that Carrie shouldn't go on the journey with you?"

Link looks to the ground, "I didn't say that. All I am saying is that she shouldn't have to. It is up to her if she chooses to come along. I just.......I just don't want to endanger her. These are my enemies.....not hers."

Malon nods, "I see. I am sure through time she'll learn as much as you have through your adventures. Like you said, you don't know her that well. For all you know, she could know more things than you thought. Wait and see. You'll find out."

With that, she places a hand on Link's shoulder. Link looks to Malon and smiles, "Thanks, Malon. I think I'll take you up on that."

Link then pats Malon's hand on his shoulder. Malon smiles, "Just remember.....things aren't what they seem."

Malon then removes her hand, "Would you like to stay tonight?"

Link looks to the skies, "It's too dark to travel......alright."

He then looks to Malon who was smiling, "Okay. You can use the guest's room."

Link puts a hand up, "No thanks. I'll ask Carrie if she wants it."

Malon nods, "Okay. Just let me know."

With that, Malon turns and walks into the house. Link sighs and looks at Carrie again. He then begins to walk up to her.

Epona then runs to Carrie and nudges her and Dark. Carrie laughs and almost falls back, "Hey! Watch it!"

She then leans back up and pets both horses. Link then comes beside her, "Hey, Carrie."

Carrie looks at Link and smiles, "Hi, Link."

Link then said, "Malon would like to know if you would like to sleep in the guest's room."

Carrie then looks at Dark and Epona, "I'd rather sleep in the barn with Dark. Don't want to leave him on his own."

Link's eyes widened, "You would sleep in a barn just to be with your horse?"

Carrie nods with a smile, "Uh-huh. Why not? He should start getting use to me as his owner."

Link thinks for a moment, "Hmm.....that is true. Alright.....that sounds like a good idea."

Link then says, "In that case......I'll sleep in the barn too, to keep you company."

Carrie smiles, "Okay."