Candle

The next level!

And deeper yet!

This one is fun.

They will get more interesting the deeper we go.

This is place

A different memory

Guilt

Pain

Suffering

What might have been is here and now.

The forest ghost

And a Dark Link entrance later on!

YAY! DL!

Although PFM ownz his ass.

It makes me sad.

Anyways...

Down once more!

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Rose Birdcage: If Only...

Memories are just where you laid them
Dragging waters 'til the depths give up their dead
What did you expect to find?
Was it something you left behind?
Don't you remember everything I said when I said

Don't fall away
And leave me to myself
Don't fall away
And leave love bleeding in my hands

Nexus came upon a second door. This one was more of a gate. It was made of iron, entwined with ribbon, black satin, and the fur of some animal she could not identify. This was guilt. Beyond this door were the saddening emotions of guilt, frustration, pain and possibly sorrow. The gate swung open before Nexus and she stepped through.

Her feet touched down on cobblestones. There were people moving around her and through her, pushing forwards towards a stage. Nexus jumped, soaring and floating over the crowd and up to the stage. There was a great gilded cage sitting before the people, though it was covered by black satin. Nexus concentrated.

She heard a voice.

That shouldn't have happened...

That should have been me...

This should have happened to me...

A man—a soldier—walked up to the stage. He shouted some words and the crowd cheered again. The cage was removed, revealing its lack of bottom and a wooden pole. Tied to this pole was the Hylian hero himself. Nexus head the voice again.

I should have been the one...

Floating behind the stage for a moment, Nexus spotted a little white thing. It looked like a cross between a panther, a wolf, and a wingless dragon. It mewed once before Nexus floated back over the stage. The soldier shouted something about a "Forest Ghost". Nexus assumed it was the white thing. There were more shouts about killing it. But instead of flushing out the baby Forest Ghost, a group of soldiers with pitch forks and spears came on the stage.

That should have been me...

I should have been...

Nexus cried out in horror as the points drove themselves into Link. The people were laughing as his blood was spilling everywhere. The voices soon were muted, but Nexus watched in revulsion as there were more stabs and more blood.

Then it clicked.

"Link, this is not the reality." She said solemnly.

The images ruptured and shattered. Nexus was left with a saddened image of Link clutching this carcass of the little Forest Ghost. Nexus floated over, silent as the haunting voice echoed off the nothingness.

I had saved it when I was a child...

But they took it from me, saying it was possessing me and making me evil...

Then I watched helpless as they stabbed it to death...

All I could think of was that maybe it should have been me...

Nexus said nothing. She could do nothing to mend this wound. She was returned to the hallway. Saying nothing at fist, she stood in silence for a moment.

"Link, I don't know if you're listening to me or not...but..."

There was a bit of silence as the words resonated from the walls.

"You must stop blaming yourself. Not all guilt you feel is yours."

Nexus continued on, wondering what she would encounter next.

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Next is...

The Watery Hall

Enjoy!