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Where. Was. Morning?
Link clenched his jaw as he - once again – tried to gain control of a rearing Epona.
Link's mind buzzed as he tried to gather his thoughts, but nothing seemed to come to him.
His heart raced in his chest until it drowned out all other noise; no amount of training could have prepared him for this.
This mission could not fail. But was it going to?
Then something miraculous, and odd, and wonderful all at once happened.
The sound of a gawky birdsong pierced the air, overwhelming Link's jumbled thoughts and instantly filling his mind with one question: what was that?
No sooner had the question formed that it was answered.
Over his right shoulder Link watched as a flock of red-crowned, white feathered, clucking cuckoos came charging over the hill.
It looked to Link like there was a hundred of them, but it must have been an illusion created by their flailing bodies and flying feathers. He watched in complete bewilderment as the brigade of fowl raced past.
The last body to rise over the hill into view was a lanky, pale boy. His hair was first into view, as it stood at least a foot above his head in tall yellow spikes, but eventually the rest of him followed, with a stern look and clenched fists.
The most remarkable thing happened next.
A ring of cuckoos surrounded the ghosts and their carnage. They hung in the air, stunned by the birds, all thought of the cart lost. Was that fear they portrayed? It was hard to tell – their eyes still shed unwavering beams of yellow light, - but they had turned their backs on their quarry and were shying away from the cuckoos.
A chorus of crows was let off from the birds, causing the ghosts to clearly show unease. The huddled together and the same light from earlier this evening filled the area. One by one they vanished in a puff of smoke, until only the remnants of the cart remained.