Saria was the Great Deku Tree's favorite. Mido wasn't jealous, because Saria was his favorite, too. It made sense for the Great Deku Tree to agree with him, the boss of all the Kokiri. He didn't need to be anybody's favorite if someone as important as the Great Deku Tree had the same opinions as him, because that was proof he was right about everything all the time, and that was just as good as being liked. Mido's favorite used to be Fado, but he changed his mind. Saria liked to wear long sleeves and sing to the Skull Kids, which was very cool.
There was talk in the village that Saria had seen the Kokiri Emerald. The Great Deku Tree had shown it to her. "Well, so what?" Mido said. "Haven't we all seen it?" He'd never seen it. If anyone should've seen it, it should've been him, because he was the biggest deal around. But it was fine if Saria got special honors. He'd allow it, because of how cool she was. He said, "You know, the emerald looks different to everyone who sees it," in case Saria ever told anyone how it really looked. And then he made some stuff up. But he kept wondering.
He asked his fairy to put in a good word for him with Saria's fairy, and told the other Kokiri to do Saria favors and tell her who sent them. Saria did a thing where she looked at him sideways and covered her hand with her mouth and laughed – he was pretty sure this was friendship, but you couldn't be too sure. He tried going into the Lost Woods where she liked to go. Just the once. It was fine that he turned back. It was fine if everyone had different roles in the village. Like, Saria was the brave one, and he kept everyone else in line. People ought to respect him a ton for all this order he was maintaining. He couldn't afford to be the favorite because he had so many hard decisions to make, about who should do what and whose turn it was to paint signs or sew clothes or play shopkeeper.
He said, "Saria, do you like me?" and she said, "Of course." And he said, "Who do you like the most?" and she said, "The Great Deku Tree," and then he said "Of course" and didn't start grinding his teeth until she had gone away. She never said anything about how impressive he was. Wasn't he impressive at all?