Chapter Five
Link yawned, sitting up on the floor. He had convinced Marin that she didn't need to give up her bed for him, though Tarin still forced Malon to take his. He and Tarin had rolled out sleeping bags and slept on the floor.
Link slowly and quietly stood up. It was still nighttime, and everyone was asleep, but the storm had at least calmed down. He walked to the door and carefully pulled it open.
"Can't sleep?" Marin asked as Link left the house.
Link glanced over to the fence where Marin was sitting. "Guess not. You?"
She nodded. "The same." She sighed.
"What's wrong?" Link asked.
Marin sighed again. "This is going to sound weird, I know, and you might not-"
Link stopped her. "Trust me. I've been through weird. What's going on?"
"I feel like I've met you before. Every time I see you, I feel like we've already met, in some other place or something. That, and I can hear this tune echoing in the distance sometimes. I can't explain it, but it's scaring me."
Link walked over next to her. "I know the feeling. Ever since I woke up here, everything feels like a bad case of déjà vu. And that tune, I know what you're talking about. I heard it on the top of Mount Tamaranch. It sounds almost like a lullaby."
"Or a ballad," Marin said without thinking.
Link thought for a second. "I guess so." He thought a moment more before looking up suddenly. "Marin, what did your father do with the clothes I was wearing when you found me?"
"They're inside. Why?"
Link opened the door. He threaded his way around Tarin and searched the house. It didn't take long, mainly because the house was really small, before he found what he was looking for. He grabbed the still-damp tunic and pulled open an almost invisible secret pocket. From this pocket, he removed an egg-shaped instrument that seemed to shine even in the darkness. Link returned outside.
"What's that?" Marin asked.
"I want to say it's the Ocarina of Time, but what that means or is, I'm not sure." Standing here, holding the Ocarina, Link felt a sense of peace sweep over him. He lifted it to his mouth and started playing. He tried to mimic the melody that he had heard on Mount Tamaranch, but after a few seconds he realized that he knew how to play the tune. After a few more seconds, Marin started singing, her voice matching the melody of the Ocarina.
They went on like this for several minutes before they both stopped. Marin glanced in amazement at the Ocarina. "Is it magic or something?" she asked.
"Yes, but not there. I already knew the song, but I guess I had forgotten it."
"That's what it felt like to me, too."
Though neither of them said it, they both knew that the song was called the Ballad of the Wind Fish, though neither knew what a Wind Fish was, nor why it had a ballad about it that they both knew.
"I feel kinda sleepy," Marin whispered after a minute. Link nodded and she vanished inside the house. Link waited until the door was firmly shut before he left the yard, following the path on the ground.
He wound his way past the house with the chained thing and past the library. He went left from where the beach started and worked his way through the woods, though toward what, he did not know.
After a few minutes, the trees parted and Link entered a clearing. Before him stood three statues of some sort of segmented worm. Beyond that was a cave of sorts, with bars covering the entrance. In the exact middle, though, the bars were gone. Link walked forward, taking his first steps into the Tail Cave.