"This is just great. The map was wrong!" snapped Navi.
"Hmm..."
He reached his hand out to lean against the wall of the dead end and get a better look at the rather vague map.
" Wahh!"
He yelped as his hand slipped directly through the wall as if it were non-existent and went toppling to the floor.
"Well, would you look at that. It's an illusion." Navi said flying past him.
Link brushed himself off and they happened upon a dark, spacious cavern behind the illusory wall. The circular room tilted at the other side where a thin waterfall gurgled down the rocks and pooled on the smooth pale stone floor. Link breathed in the sweet, misty air and looked around. Giant caps of glowing mushrooms growing on the walls provided a faint white light, lending the place a strange ambiance.
"Well, Link, just collect the water and we can get out of here." Navi chimed flittering about the cavern room.
He bent down to collect the water in a jar and then came back up to cork it. There was nothing in jar. He confusedly scratched his head and dunked it back into the cold, shallow liquid again. He noticed that this time, the water actually recoiled from his hand after contact. The water was like a living substance. "Now that's odd..." Navi was down near his hand, lighting the phenomenon.
"How are we supposed to..."
Link shrugged and shook his head.
Navi jingled in a sad manner and then grew angry.
"Well, come on!" She shouted
" Navi, let me ask. Ahem, Dream Well, can we get some water?"
Link asked, his voice echoing a bit.
The water began to ripple and hum slightly. An abrupt mist began to fill the Dream Well and the pool swirled upwards into a tall, swiftly spinning column.
"State your name." The voice could have either been female or young male.
" Link. Link of Hyrule."
He then gasped as two tendrils, like snakes made of water reached out from the column and after a moment, entered his ears. Link shuddered as his head began to tingle and ring with a ticklish, icy feeling. He couldn't move for a moment and felt his very thoughts and memories being looked through at a rapid rate.
Navi made a 'ding' noise and looked on with her tiny face in shock.
"Now, is this really necessary?"
The tendrils of water regained gravity and fell apart. Link rubbed his ears and shook his head tapping it rapidly, unsure of what exactly had just happened.
"Very good." The column's voice said.
The spiral slowed and four immense, crescent wings sprouted, revealing the body of a being. She resembled a young girl wearing a short, split, white wrap dress. She wore a cap similar to his, but larger and white with two tips. Her skin and wings were dark violet and a large gem shined on her forehead. The gem and wings had faint, changing lines of neon colors running along their edges.
"Link of Hyrule, I am Suena, the Great Forgotten Fairy of Dreams. You have entered my Well and desire one dream made into reality, am I correct?"
"Yes." Link said, still a bit jarred by the water still in his ears.
"I did that to check how pure of heart you were. I cannot grant dreams to those with evil intentions, imagine if I did? Not many get past my test at all."
"So can we get some water or what, Lady?" Navi asked, Link nudged the fairy to hush.
" Ohoho, tiny Deku Tree fairy, so fiery and impatient."
Suena formed a circle with her hands and a black jug appeared adorned with tiny pin dots of light scattered around it in realistic imitation of a night sky. Link's jar left his hand and she poured the contents of her jug into it.
Link caught his bottle as it drifted back to him.
"There, drink it right before you plan to sleep because it will cause you to become extremely drowsy right after drinking. When you wake, your most earnest dream will materialize. You have no conscious control over what comes true."
Link examined the bottle.
" Um, thank you." He bowed.
"Good luck, Hylian warrior, May we meet again, someday, for all this will be now, is a memory."
The Great Fairy of Forgotten Dreams closed her cresecent wings around her body and spun, becoming a column of water again. The column thinned and dissolved into thick mist, leaving no trace of water behind.
"We should go."Navi dinged.
They went through the imaginary wall to the sunlit bottom of the sinkhole. Link touched the wall again before he left. This time, his fingers met nothing but solid stone.
