One of the tall people came to the village. Saria was in the temple that day and Mido had thought about going after her. He'd been thinking about the shadows that went over the moon, and the eagle that had looked at him, and the time he almost went with her into the temple. He thought he would casually go after her, or even just in her direction, and if she happened to ask him into the temple this time to learn about mysteries, this time he'd do it. For sure. But halfway there he remembered things in the village he should be doing. He hadn't decided whether to start back. He took a few steps in one direction and then another. His fairy said to hurry home and he couldn't say why he felt like spiting her. So he was pacing back and forth when the tall person was leaving the village, so that was how the tall person found him.
The tall person wore green clothes of a Kokiri make and had yellow hair like a Kokiri. Everyone in the village had seen scraps of tall people clothes and tools, because Fado liked to show them around. Everyone knew tall people had different hair and eyes and stuff. The "tall people" were a different kind of thing than they were, everyone knew that. But this one just looked like... a person who was tall. A Kokiri who was tall. He had a long sharp nose and carried lots of things strapped to him. He looked surprised to see Mido.
Mido bent his neck back to frown up at the tall person. He wouldn't act surprised at all.
The tall person said, "Mido?" in a voice that wasn't as big as you'd expect.
Mido said, "That's Great Mido to you, outsider. I'm the boss of Kokiri Village. What do you want?"
The tall person said nothing for a while. Probably intimidated. Maybe embarrassed. Maybe he thought, Oh no, I should have sought out the boss first thing and introduced myself. I'm being so rude. The Kokiri will never help me now. Maybe that was what he thought and that was why the look on his face was so odd. He looked like -
Like someone had gone into his house and thrown all his treasures around. Ha ha, great joke, everybody, now put them back.
He said, "I think Saria's expecting me."
Mido wanted to sneer at him, Well, she never said anything about you to me, so you can't go see her. But... if Saria really was expecting him, and Mido stopped him, she'd be mad. And it wasn't like Saria told him everything. Maybe she would have, if he'd gone with her that time, to look at the thing that moved in the dark.
Maybe this man's fairy and Saria's fairy had talked about it. Then Mido shouldn't get in their way. "She's in the temple," he said. "I'll let you pass, but you owe me a favor."
Only afterward he thought, Tall people don't have fairies.
That one had a fairy.
Kokiri have fairies.
Except for one.
His head hurt. He asked his fairy, "Did you see who that tall person was with?" and she said, "What fairy? I didn't see any fairy. I don't know her." Mido got a nosebleed and wanted to go home.