Chapter Seven: Exploring the Spirit Temple
Nabooru pushed open the doors to the Spirit Temple. Her eyes were shut tight, afraid that something might fly out at her. She stood in the doorway, with her arms stretched out in front of her as if to protect herself from the evil she sensed but could not see, until she realized that nothing was going to attack her. She lowered her arms and slowly opened her eyes.
She saw that the room was empty, and then noticed how large the room actually was. She had never seen a room so big before in her short little life. There was a short stairway with stone railings on either side of it engraved with a symbol of a moon and star. On either side of the railings were two huge Cobra statues with ancient Gerudo engravings on them. She could not make out any of it.
She walked up the stairs to find that the platform led to two other rooms, one to the left and one to the right. She played 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo" with herself to choose which way to go through. One way was a child-size opening in the wall, a little larger than she was, so she could easily make her way through and go exploring. The other was a large opening in the wall that looked as though it led to an even larger room. She decided that she had better find Koume and Kotake before she went exploring, and so she chose the opening to her right.
Through that passage way, it opened into a large room. There was a short spiraling stairway that only elevated the rest of the room about three feet or so, and not even elevating it enough to be a separate room. There was a large circular red rug placed in the center of the orange-colored stone floor. It had beautiful, intricate designs of gold woven into the rug around the edges. Nabooru was captivated by it.
She finally shook herself out of the daze that the rug had put her in, feeling a similar after-effect to the time when Koume and Kotake had brainwashed her. "Something here isn't right," she muttered to herself, but she quickly pushed that idea away. She moved onwards, entering through a doorway that led into a corridor. At the end of the corridor, there was what appeared to be a dead end, but it was really a brick ladder. Clay bricks protruded from the wall in every which way so as to provide ample space to climb up. It was like climbing a compressed stairway.
Nabooru looked up as far as she could, and still could not see the ceiling above her. Instead, all she could see was how the brick ladder faded into the darkness up above. "Maybe I shouldn't climb this...mama would never allow me to climb up something like this…" Just as she had turned away from the wall and was about to exit the room to go down another path, she heard a sugar-coated voice of an old woman calling to her.
"Nabooru, sweetie, we're up here! Would you like us to come and get you?"
Ugh…thought Nabooru. Koume. Well, I don't want to risk climbing this thing and breaking my neck…but I don't want her to touch me, even if it may only be her magic. She called back up, "No thank you, Miss Koume, but I'll climb up! I might as well get big and strong if I'm going to be a princess!"
"Are you sure?" Koume called back down to her.
"Yes, ma'am, I'm sure! I'll be up there as soon as I can!" replied Nabooru. And with that, she took a deep breath and reproached the brick ladder. If there was anything she was more afraid of than climbing that thing, it was Twinrova. She would do anything to be free of their powers, and if it meant climbing up this steep wall, so be it. She breathed in once more, and grabbed onto a protruding brick with each of her hands. "I'm coming up all by myself, don't you worry about me!"
