Ever wondered?

[Kaythenia]

Kaythenia stood on the outskirts of the market, awed by the amount of people and new sights. Vendors were shouting over the crowd noise to advertise their goods, customers haggling.
If this was anything like where she had come from she didn't know...well maybe one day she would.

'It's all so big and busy...'

Someone bumped into the young girl and knocked her to the dusty floor, she looked up indignantly a scowl fixed on her young face. But people just walked on by, half of them didn't see her, Kaythenia was barely five feet tall.

[Link]

OOC: Takes place sometime in between the thread 'Trading' thread, and the most recent thread in the Forest.

A young boy in a green tunic, around the same age as Kaythenia, reached his arm out to help her up.

Link was swinging by the Market to return a mask that he had rented from the mask salesman, and was just about to head for the gate when he saw the red-haired girl get knocked over.

"Are you alright?" He asked. "That was quite a trip...most of the people around here aren't ignorant like that...they're usually friendlier, and unlike the jerk who just knocked you over, more tuned into their surroundings..."

"She's kinda cute..." Link thought to himself. "I've never seen her before...she must be new around here.

[Kaythenia]

Kaythenia accepted Link's hand and was pulled to her feet, she smiled warmly at him as she brushed the dust off her knee length scarlet tunic and tucked a few unruly strands of fiery red hair behind her ears.

"Thank you, Do I get to know you're name?"

Inquired Kaythenia, fiddling with the bell shaped sleeve of her tunic, pulling further down to her knuckles so not to expose the scars around her wrists, the stark white scars lighter than her skintone.

'I don't know him from anywhere...do I?'

She asked that question with every person that she met, wondering if they had something to do with the major gaps in her memory.

[Link]

"I think I can arrange for it..." Link answered, in a friendly tone. "My name's Link...I'm from the Forest...and you are?"

[Kaythenia]

"I'm Kaythenia or if you want you can call me Kay, my full name is a bit of a mouthful. It's nice to meet you Link."

She didn't mention where she was from because she didn't know, she noted Link's friendly tone and smiled at him. She didn't want to make him think she was a little bit weird like everyone else she had come into contact with so far. Some of the people of Hyrule weren't very open about strangers.

[Link]

"I've never seen you around here before, Kay...are you new to the area?"

[Kaythenia]

"Yes, I'm still learning my way around. I've gotten lost a couple of times."

Kaythenia had gotten lost more times than she really cared to admit since coming back to Hyrule where her parents had been born. She was very much alone at the moment.

[Link]

"I know, it's pretty easy to get lost here..." Link smiled. "When I first left the Forest, I had quite a bit of trouble finding my way around..." Link immediately recalled several instances of him wandering around Hyrule Field, without the slightest idea of where his destination was.

"So, you're new here, huh? Where are you living now?"

[Kaythenia]

"It depends really, whatever inn around the town happens to have a room."

Kaythenia still had some rupees left but sometimes the innkeepers wanted a ridiculous amount of money just for one night!
Her left hand wandered to the pendant around her neck which she absently played with

[Link]

The pendant that was tied around her neck caught Link's eye. Just by examining the object's design, he could tell that it wasn't an ordinary piece of jewelry. It's purpose was magic-related. For a moment, he thought of asking her about it, but the idea slipped from his mind.

He watched her toy with it for a moment, and then looked up at her again. "The Inn in Kakariko is really nice ,and its actually pretty cheap...ever stay there?"

[Kaythenia]

Kaythenia didn't notice Link's apparent fascination with the pendant that hung on a thin silver chain around her neck, only one of the four jewels appeared to be vaguely glowing, the rest were dormant for now.

"No, I haven't."

She shook her head and put both hands in her pockets.

[Link]

"Oh...well, if you aren't staying anywhere now, I highly reccommend it." Link paused for a moment. He noticed that there were three additional jewels tied around the girl's neck. His curiosity had grown too great; he had to say something.

"Those jewels around your neck are very pretty..." Link said. "The one in the middle...its glowing...as if its enchanted with some sort of magic..."

[Kaythenia]

Kaythenia gently touched the glowing red jewel, so far it was the only one she had managed to unlock as the other three lay sleeping.

"You could say that."

She replied and then a now familiar wash of dizziness came over her as that voice sounded in her mind.

'Hello again, we haven't talked in so long..'

'No, get out of my head.'

[Link]

"What does it do?" Link asked, unable to help himself.

OOC: Sorry my posts have been a bit thin in this thread...usually my posts are much longer, but right now I'm suffering from a painful combination of writer's block and swarms of homework.

[Kaythenia]

"You really want to know?"

Kaythenia didn't know why Link was so interested in her amulet, no one else noticed it...well no one else around here had noticed her anyway.