I run towards the left and went over the bride. I hoped I ran fast enough to lose her but she was quicker than I thought she was, she was running after me still screaming, "What, I didn't mean to scare you, come back." I got to say I was slightly impressed, I was running at full speed but she still seemed to follow me.

I hid behind a tree near Coro's house and waited for her to pass me, I doubled back the way I came but Ilia wasn't fooled that easily. She turned around to see me run back the way I came. I ran past Faron spring and over the bridge and quickly dove into the tunnel in Ordon spring.

That's when I heard a slight creaking noise and a locking noise. Very cleaver, she looked the gates leading to the bridge, now I'm suck in this area and I can't get out. I know Ilia has a spare key to the lock, but I didn't know she was that desperate to 'help' a wolf.

"I locked the newly made gates and only I have the key, so your suck in this area until I unlock it." I sighed; this is just not my day, not at all. She walked past the spring and towards the village, then I heard a loud slam coming from the back of the tunnel I walked forward to see what it was.

I arrived at the end of the tunnel to find it closed off by a small metal gate. I had to walk backwards until I arrived at the spring and Ilia was standing at the entrance locking the other newly made gate and putting away the key. "There, I knew you would try to slip past me by using the tunnel so I closed it off."

"The entrance to the spring has also been closed off, and I locked it so you can't get away from me again." I growled at her, Ilia always thought two steps ahead ever since the whole bulblin advent, like getting the gates repaired and made of steel, and the small metal gate covering the tunnel entrance/exit.

"Please try to understand I want to help you if you're injured." I slightly bowed my head; she was very persistent I'll give her that. I sat down and stared at her saying, "Fine, you win." Taking my submission she walked up to me and began looking me over. "So you are injured. Where did you get this cut on your side?"

I looked at the injury in question. I forgot I even had that. It happened yesterday in Hyrule field; I was killing off some monsters and got hit in the side by a sword. I was in my wolf form when it happened so I got cut pretty deeply. "You poor thing, it looks like it happened recently, maybe yesterday night if I'm not mistaken."

Nope, you are pretty much spot on. "What's this?" She grabbed the chain to my shackle and held it up. She looked at the shackle on my left paw very closely. "Why were you chained up? And how did you escape?" I knew I should have got this thing removed when I had the chance. "You were imprisoned, in a dungeon, weren't you?"

How in the world did see figure that out? Seeing my shocked face she giggled, "It has the Hyrule royal seal on it." She turned it over and pointed to a mark on my shackle, I looked very closely at it and was shocked to see it was true. "I read that Hyrule castle has dungeons, were they put the most important prisoners."

"Even if they manage to break the chain the shackle won't come off no matter what you try. That's because the lock is covered by the royal seal, and only royalty can remove it. So even if you escape and disguise yourself, the guards will arrest you again seeing this shackle."

I just stared at her dumbfounded; she knew all this from reading a book? "Don't worry I won't turn you in. Wolves aren't meant to be locked up in a cage, they deserve to run free." And yet here I am, trapped inside the spring like a cage. "Oh, from the look on your face I can tell you are mad at me for something."

She quickly looked around and sighed, "Kind of stuck my foot in my mouth didn't I? Here I am saying your shouldn't be kept in a cage, but here you are being trapped in the spring like a cage." Not going to comment on that. "You probably want to go back home now. Back to your den, mate and pups right?" NOT GOING TO COMMENT ON THAT! "Okay I'll let you leave if that's what you want."

She unlocked the gates and I followed her out and waited for her to unlock the gates, she was just about to when we heard Rusl's voice, "Ilia! Where are you? You're taking longer than usual to wash Epona; we were starting to get worried about you." Before she had a chance to call back he was already looking at her with a happy smile.

"There you are. I was sent to see what took you so long. Are you okay?" She quickly looked around to see I have already disappeared. She looked back at Rusl and smiled, "Yep I was just testing the gates to see if they needed to be oiled." She unlocked the gates and pulled them open, they squeaked a bit.

"As you can see they do need a bit of oiling, but the ones at the spring are fine." "It shouldn't have token you this long. Epona wasn't even clean when I saw her, did something happen?" "Nope, nothing happened. I was just enjoying the view of a beautiful butterfly until you spooked it away."

I laughed inside my head, everyone knows Ilia loves nature, and one time we found her lying on the grass staring at a butterfly on a flower. We left her alone, but a few hours later we found her in the same spot staring at the same butterfly, on the same flower.

When we asked her what she was still doing there after two hours she slowly blinked up at us and said, "Has it been that long already? I didn't even notice." So yah, my best friend can stare at a butterfly for hours on end, and it was the perfect bluff. "Ilia, remember what your father told you about staring at butterflies, don't get too wrapped up in their beauty or else you would stare at it all day."

"I now, but I couldn't help myself. But thanks for snapping me out of it, now I can wash Epona, and go back home." Rusl and Ilia walked back to the village after she cleaned Epona, as I slinked back to my house. I quickly transformed back and ran into my house closing the door as quietly as possible.

Mental note to self, never ever do that again, just send the letter and turn back, no daydreaming or getting lost in thought. I exited the house and went to the village only to see Ilia trying to sneak out. "Hey, Ilia, are you trying to go anywhere?" "Oh, hey Link. Um, I was just, ah, going back to the spring to, uh, relax in the water."

"Then why don't you just walk there normally? You look like your sneaking off to go meet someone." "Oh, I uh, was just going to check something out. But I don't want anyone to follow me." "Why, are you meeting a secret boyfriend or something?" "Or something… Well got to go, see you later."

I followed her to the spring without being seen by her as she quietly whispered, "Wolf, here wolf. I brought you something." "So your mystery friend is a wolf is it?" She quickly looked at me and started to laugh nervously. "Yah, you see I found him this morning when I was going to watch Epona. He looked startled when he saw me, and just sat there as still as a statue."

"Well that's very interesting, but you should be trying to go find it again." "And why not, I'm a big girl I can handle myself." "It's not some tame dog, it was a wild feral wolf, and it was probably just stunned to see a person." "Yeah, but I walked up to it and it stated to growl at me, but I walked up to it anyways…" "Hold it, you just walked up to a wild wolf while it was telling you to stay away?"

"Well I could small blood coming from it, and saw a cut on its side and I knew it was injured so I wanted to help it, so I stuck my hand out for it to smell it." "You realize it could have bite off your hand, right?" "Well he didn't and he sniffed it and licked it. I knew he wouldn't hurt me."

"What if he just licked you to see how you tasted? You were offering your hand to him; maybe he wanted to taste the kind of skin he would bite." "Well he didn't bite me, and when I wanted to look more carefully at the injury he ran off." "And you let him be right? He probably wasn't hungry enough to eat you, so he probably went to go find something else."

"Well not exactly, I chased him, and then he doubled back he were I trapped him." "What were you thinking, he could have killed you!" "Well I wasn't really thinking about that, I just wanted to help with his injury." "Ilia, you're my best friend, but I don't want you to do that ever again."

"Oh, and what will you do if I did do it again?" "I would have to tell your father." "You wouldn't dare, he would freak out and ground me and I would be every mad at you." "Better you being mad at me, then you being dead. I just don't want you to die and hurt everyone's feelings. What do you think your father would be like if he found out you died today?"

"He would morn me and be left without his only living relative." "Exactly, so I won't tell anyone about this, but try to do something like this again and I would be forced to tell everyone about what you did that day, and what you did this day." "Okay, I won't do it again." "Ilia, I'm just trying to look out for what's best for you. On another note what did he look like?"

"What did who look like?" "Your injured wolf you trapped in the spring." "Um, he was big, black with white markings, had sharp looking teeth and claws." "Is that it?" "Well he did have deep blue eyes; he had this intelligent look in his eyes that I noticed." "Well they do say animals are smarter then they look."

"Just take Epona for an example: she can find me no matter where I blow the horse whistle you gave me." "Yeah, she is a very smart horse." "Yes she is. Come on lets go back to the village." After I dropped Ilia at her home I got on Epona and rode off towards Hyrule castle. "I need to get that shackle removed and only Zelda can do that. She is the only royal who knows my secret."