Navi sighed, shaking her head as she pinched the bridge of her nose. "I was hoping somebody would fill you in so this would be faster."

Link caught the fairy's impatient tone and felt a rush of annoyance. What was this fairy's problem? He wasn't sure he liked her very much.

Navi must have realized her error; she quickly relaxed her posture and let her hands fall to her side. "The Great Deku Tree has appointed me to be your guardian fairy."

Within seconds, Link's irritation melted away. 

My own fairy?

"You... what?" he stammered.

Link nearly pinched himself, thinking that this was either a dream or an elaborate prank. He half expected Mido to jump out from behind the door and say, "Ha, ha. Tricked you, fairy-less!"

When no Mido appeared, and Navi did not disappear as though only a figment of an overactive imagination, Link's heart swelled with delight.

"Didn't you hear me?" Navi asked, raising her voice. "I'm going to be your partner... can't you hear very well?"

"Really?" Link blurted. He almost laughed, completely oblivious to Navi's irate tone."My partner? I actually get to have my own fairy?"

"She's Link's fairy, Mido. Her name's Navi," Saria said sternly.

Her tone warned Mido to show some respect. Predictably, he didn't notice.

"I don't believe it!" Mido spat., He spotted Link's sword next, and his eyebrows nearly vanished beneath the fringe of his hair.

"Is that... a sword?" he spluttered. "An actual... Wait, have you taken to robbing travelers that stray into the woods? Are you trying to give us all bad luck?"

No, just you, Link thought, before replying tersely,  "Navi gave it to me."

"A fairy giving a Kokiri a sword," Mido scoffed. "That's ridiculous. What are you planning to do with it? Cut grass?"

"Actually, I was wondering if I could stab you with it," Link said sarcastically.

By midday, after hours of jogging along the winding road, Link's wonder at the open vista of Hyrule Field was wearing off.  The path meandered between an endless sea of rocky hills swathed in golden grass. Sweat trickled down Link's blisteringly hot face, and his limbs ached from exhaustion. He'd lost count of the number of times he'd asked Navi how much further they had to go. Eventually, she tired of his persistent questions and distracted him by teaching him Hylian.

Navi tried simple phrases, and then introductions, but she didn't get further than that. In the end, attempting to say, "My name is Link and I am a Kokiri," in Hylian somehow turned into "My name is Link and I am a pumpkin."

"You're lying," Link protested when Navi corrected him. "I didn't say that!"