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They were woken by a loud shriek.

"Aaahh! Who are you??!?!" A girls voice.

"Huh?" Khârna said, rather stupidly.

"What are we doing here?" Link asked. He hadn't gotten enough sleep, and couldn't clearly remember the events of last night.

"I should be asking you that." The girl had long red hair, almost to her knees. She looked to be about 10, like the boys, and had a very pretty face, in a farm girl-ish sort of way. She had on a very breezy looking dress, and a yellow kerchief around her neck, fastened with a dragon head brooch.

"Well, we were attacked in the night, and it was raining, and cold, and we needed a place to stay." Khârna said vaguely, remembering the events of the previous night.

"Yeah, and nobody was up, so we couldn't ask. We were kind of desperate." Link finished.

The girl scowled, unable to find a good reason why they shouldn't be there. It wasn't like they had a no trespassing sign.

"Well, I'm Malon. Who are you?"

"Khârna."

"Link."

"Well, nice to meet you," she said. "Daddy and I are going into Hyrule Castle Town to deliver milk." Link's face brightened.

"Can I go too?" He asked, in a somewhat pleading voice.

"I guess, so… Fairy boy." She said, finding a dumb nickname on the spot. She couldn't think of one for the other one… how annoying. Link wasn't stung by this. He was still overjoyed with the prospect of having a fairy.

"Gee, thanks!" He said. Malon was rather unhappy with the fact that he didn't care about her nickname for him. (She's not mean, just a little unhappy that they were using the stable to sleep in.)

"C-can I come too?" Khârna asked weakly. He didn't have a reason to go, but he didn't want to be left alone.

With the admirable forgiveness inherent in children, Malon responded,

"Sure! The more the merrier!" Khârna brightened considerably at this.

"What in tarnation?" exclaimed a loud male voice. "Who are these two, Malon?"

"They're friends, daddy!" Link and Khârna were shocked. They had met less than 5 minutes ago. And now they were friends?

"Well, then, that's all right," said the man, with the classic naïveté that distinguishes parents of young children, who are nearly adolescence. "My name's Talon. I'm the owner of this ranch. What are your names?"

"Link"

"Khârna" They said quickly, fairly surprised at the number of times in two days they were saying this.

"Well, boys, we're off to Hyrule Castle Town to deliver some milk, and-"

"We know. Malon told us. We were wondering if we could go with you."

"I don't see any reason why not."

"Can we help in any way?" Khârna asked. He felt it was common courtesy to do so.

"Well, you could help us load up the wagon." Talon replied, scratching his head. The truth was, he didn't really have anything, he could do that by himself, but since the boy asked so sincerely, he didn't want to refuse.

"OK." Khârna said with a smile, and started lifting crates on to the wagon. Link sort of shifted off to the side. What was so fun about lifting crates? He didn't get it.

"Ready to go?" Talon asked?

"Yep," Link said a little too quickly. Khârna laughed.

"Well then, let's go!" Talon said.

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