The Link in paragraph 2 is the same Link in paragraph 1.
Mr. Squirrel wrote:Link had been awoken when Ezlo, his magical hat and friend, scrawked at him. The hat told him that he had heard a commotion in the woods and that Link had to go check it out. Link reluctantly got up and grabbed his potion bottle. As he approached the clearing where the sound was being heard, he saw a large tree that had been set on fire. Link sighed, walked over, popped open his potion bottle, and poured it over top the flame which sputtered out in a hiss. He then staggered back into the woods and collapsed back on his mat to sleep.
In the morning, Link arose and found that his potion bottle and all the potion inside of it had disappeared. He searched the woods around the tree that he visited at night, but wasn't able to find the bottle anywhere. Coming to the conclusion that he couldn't have dropped it, that left only the possiblitly that someone had stolen it...
The way I read it: scum tried to kill tree, Link w/ potion saved tree, and an item thief stole the bottle from Link. Maple & sword Link seem to be absent...maybe they were gun-shy from Night 1's events? Or possible that rds blocked one of them.
Does anyone with more Zelda knowledge have an idea who an item thief could be? As in, likely town or scum?