"Why can't we go inside?" asked the little blond-haired boy sitting beside Saria. Nothing in that blissful sweet morning spoke of the events that would one day befall them both. Events that would shatter the naive tranquillity of a child's world. It would change him. It would change them all. Follow Saria's story from Link's adoptive mother to Sage of the Forest.

Fatally wounded Link finds himself in a temple where he meets the goddess Farore. She gives him a choice, to either return to Hyrule or move on beyond the realm of the living. If he chooses the latter and abandons the mantle of the heroes, Hyrule will fall. He must decide quickly though or become a shade. A short story based on an excerpt from my Ocarina of Time novelization.