1She opened her eyes. She could hear the muffled roar of the waterfall. It was dark and wet. Even in the low light, Saya could make out the tear-filled eyes above her. She sat up, rubbing her head. "Tiro?...Oww. What the heck is wrong with you?"

It was Tiro. She burst out crying and apologizing. From what she could piece together, it seemed like Tiro had just wanted to see what Saya was made of.

"Blood...skin...bones...you don't wanna know," Saya said with a moan.

"No, not that way," Tiro replied, wiping her eyes and sniffing, "Like, see what kind of light you saw things in. You know, how highly you hold stuff."

"Right now," retorted Saya, picking up a stone from the floor, "I think I like this rock a lot more than I like you."

"It is a pretty rock," Tiro said, pointing out the pronounced red crystals.

"Want it?"

"No, you can keep it."

There was an awkward silence. Finally, Tiro said, "I'm really glad you're okay, Saya. I thought that if you weren't going to make it, I would jump off the cliff and drown myself. But then I remembered..." She pointed to her shoulders. "Gills."

Saya nodded. "But this still doesn't explain why you tried to kill me!"

"'Kill...?' I guess Hylians like you don't have the same customs that Zoras like me do for making friends with strangers."

"What, you risk the other's life?"

"No. If you want to make friends with another Zora, you take something they love and pretend to destroy it. You didn't have to jump. I was just asking to be your friend. Had you been a Zora, I doubt we'd be here now."

Saya nodded. It made sense now...Sort of. "Okay. And speaking of here, does Runi know where we are?"

"Oh, yeah. He said you'd be fine as long as you were out of the water. Hylians don't have gills like Zoras, right?" Saya shook her head. "I didn't think so. And in case you didn't notice, your dives need serious work. You hit the water at a bad angle, which is why you were almost knocked out by the force of it."

Saya rubbed her neck. "Yeah, feels like it," she groaned. She practically hit her head on the low ceiling as a thought occurred to her. "The Kokiri Sword..." she gasped, "My Ocarina! Please tell me they didn't go under with you!"

"No, they didn't! I-I put them in one of the only dry places in Zoras' Domain. Wood and water don't mix well, that much I know."

Tiro had trouble keeping her laughter in as Saya actually did hit her head when she gasped. She had seen the near miss before, and had anticipated a time when the Hylian would make contact. Saya didn't seem to care about anything but her lost possessions' location. "Where?" she demanded.

Tiro's laughter died instantly at the look in Saya's eyes. She became nervous. Tiro wasn't good in these high-pressure situations. Lying will only get you one place: trouble, her mother had always said. Tell the truth...

"I forgot."

"Uh...It's, uh, it's, uh, it's...not that huge," Saya stammered, "I mean, how many dry places are there in Zoras' Domain between here and the waterfall?"

Tiro gulped. "Well, you see, there's, uh...I think seven of them...eight?"

"And how many from here to the falls?" Saya asked patiently.

"Ahh...All of them," Tiro told the wall.