He felt a gentle tingling within his darkness in the well after a while.
He instinctively snapped open his eyes from the innate tingling of his
brain's message to him that he was in danger as he found himself in the
deep blue narrowness of the well. He felt scared. Scared that he had died
of drowning.
He looked down expecting his cold lifeless body on the bottom of the
well, but he saw nothing. Only the hard stone bottom of well floor. He
stared straight up at the surface and swam up to the top. He inhaled and
exhaled by instinct of his former self's mindset, but he felt kind of funny
as he felt some slits in the side of his neck expand and contract, as well
as twin hair thin slits expand and contract on his chest. He blinked, and
stared upwards as he felt as though someone was watching him from afar;
he convinced himself that he was just still feeling strange from the unconsciousness,
but he could not piece together exactly how or why he was in the
bottom of the well, he thought of this for no longer than thirty seconds
before the thought made itself ripple out of his brain. His head felt numb,
hurt, and confused. He climbed up the ladder and glanced back down into
well to make sure he hadn't forgotten anything, he saw none of his weapons
down on the bottom but he gasps when he saw his reflection.
"No..." he heard himself say quietly, finding that his voice had changed
as well as his reflection, ".... this cannot be....". "What's the matter,
mister?" he heard a young girl's voice.
"What?" he said with signs of annoyance in his changed voice, he turned
around to face her, "What do you want little one?"
When she saw his face, she gasped in surprise, "A Zora? What are you
doing in Kakariko Village?"
He stared blankly at her
"What is it mister?"
He said nothing in response, only shut his eyes and fell to his knees
with a sudden weakness, arms weakly to his sides. "What's the matter with
me?" he replied glumly, "I...." he opened his eyes and glared at the girl
angrily, "Get away from me!" he growled at her as he swung back his hand
as a threat.
The girl stumbled backwards and tried to keep herself balanced before
she would cause herself to fall down the stairs, she cried out.
He heard her scream and couldn't bear of having a tragedy such as a
child's death plague his mind forever, so he rushed towards her with surprising
speed that he thought he would've never been able to summon up in his life.
He caught the young girl just before she fell, he cradled her in his strong
Zoran arms and gently set her down on the ground next to the Cucco Pen
near the graveyard path. He kneeled to be at eye level with the girl, "I
am sorry, little girl." he apologized with honest sincerity in his now
Zoran voice which sounded as if he where talking underwater with some crystal
clarity in it, "I was just anguished about something."
"Thank you for catching me, Zora." she thanked him with natural juvenile
spunk in her voice.
"My name's Maiku...."
"Okay, Maiku. Thanks for catching me... I appreciate it, but... why
did you seem surprised when you looked into the well?"
"I uh... cannot answer that, sorry."
"Why not?"
"That is not to be anything of your concern!" he yelled at her, stood up, and stormed up to the Death Mountain gate.