The morning following the night Link and Sheik had arrived at the Stock Pot Inn, Sheik woke up. He was feeling groggy and slow, disoriented. In an instant he snapped his head around, surveying the room. He was lying in the bed on the far side of the room from the door. Sheik felt Link stir beside him. He looked down at the sleeping Hero of Time.

Sheik propped himself up on his elbow. The quilt draped across the two of them did well to protect them from the draft in the room, the fire had died. Sheik's golden hair fell across his left eye as always, but now be brushed out of his face and tucked it behind his ear. The cool morning air struck Sheik's chest, but he took little notice aside from a slow exhale. His crimson gaze was on Link's sleeping face, a face that was relaxed for the most part except for his stirring.

Link opened his blue eyes and looked up at Sheik, flushing with slight embarrassment at being seen completely naked, even if it was under the quilt, and at seeing Sheik's lean muscled chest and arms.

Link stretched and yawned. He sat up and brushed his straw colored hair out of his eyes, causing Sheik to smile.

"Morning," Sheik said affectionately, giving Link and chaste kiss.

Link and Sheik rose from the bed, each washing with the washbasin that stood on a table between the two beds. They dressed without speaking, though they shared several brief kisses.

They the warriors descended the stairs, Link carrying the Knife Room key that Anju had given him the night before. He placed it on the front desk beside the check-in book and led Sheik out the front door with a glance over his shoulder, he felt like there was someone he should be talking to, but he didn't know who. With that Link and Sheik made their way through the town.

Clock Town, Sheik quickly realized was far more similar and yet very different from Castle Town that he could have imagined. There were people who were identical to those from Castle Town, but they didn't seem to take more than a passing glance at the two of them, except for the looks Sheik drew from his unusual skintight outfit.

Link didn't know where they were going, but his feet led them along a road that was unquestionably familiar to him, everything here was as if he had known it before. And from the way Kafei and Anju had treated him and spoken to them, it was as if they had known each other very well. Link shook his head to free those thoughts.

Not having memories before the age of twelve didn't used to bother Link, he had been brought into the village of Ordon and given a home, it hadn't mattered to him that he didn't have a past; it was just the way things were. But now, now he needed to know, he had never been face with this kind of situation before, but perhaps his memories could answer his questions. However, he could never have been prepared for what he would learn.

Link and Sheik spent the day around Clock Town. Sheik with his skills of observation was making connections between the Castle Town he knew and its' people and the towns people of Clock Town. Link, on the other hand, had been greeted by a handful of people who knew him by name, but weren't proclaiming him the Hero of Time, they weren't treating him the way the people of Hyrule did. But, Sheik reminded himself, this was a place called Termina, this was not Hyrule.

It was over the course of the day that sheik decided he would talk to Kafei and find out what he knew about Link and about this place.

Sheik and Link walked back into the Stock Pot Inn at sunset, the sky turning shades of blood red to the night's dark velvet blue. Anju came up to them, asking Link if he could he go and talk to her grandmother. Link looked mildly surprised, but being the type of person he was, agreed and was led by Anju to a back room that she claimed was her grandmother's room.

Meanwhile, Sheik turned his attention to Kafei who was standing behind the counter, watching him.

"We need to talk," Sheik began in a dark voice. "I have questions and you have answers that I need."

Kafei, to Sheik's surprise, nodded. "There are things I have questions about as well," he said, his own red eyes meeting the Sheikah's. Kafei walked around the counter and came down the hall to the lobby. He gestured Sheik to follow him up the stairs to a door at the top, to the immediate left. He opened it and led the way outside onto a large balcony overlooking East Clock Town. A great bell stood at the center of the balcony, glinting in the final dying rays of light.

Kafei walked over to the face bordering the side of the balcony and swung his legs over it, sitting with practiced ease on the narrow surface. Sheik leaned against the fence, turning his face to Kafei, red eyes narrowing and silently demanding answers, answers that only Kafei was likely to be able to give him.

Kafei looked out over East Clock Town as lights began to flicker on below them and the full moon began to show its' leering disturbing face.

"Do you see that?" Kafei asked, looking up at the moon.

Sheik raised his gaze and was shocked to see that the moon was completely different from the moon back in Hyrule. This moon had a distinct and sickening face. It leered down at the land of Termina below it. Sheik had to repress a shudder at the sight of it, but nodded nonetheless.

"Have you ever heard of the moon falling?" Kafei asked, once looking up at the moon, his red eyes looking glazed and distant.

Sheik had once heard very old stories about the legend of the moon falling, but had always brushed it off as bed time story used to frighten children.

Kafei continued without waiting for Sheik's response. "Nine years ago," he began, "Termina was much the way it is today, but the land was in turmoil and the Skull Kid, with the power of Majora's Mask, was causing the moon to fall…" Kafei continued to explain about his own personal history of his wedding mask being stolen and turned back into a child, he told of Link aiding his and Anju, the finer details of what Link did for the people of Clock Town, how he helped them each individually. Though Kafei didn't know every detail, he told Sheik about how Link had helped the Deku, the Gorons, and the Zora. He also explained about the powers of the masks in the realm of Termina and the powers that they possessed. Kafei also informed Sheik of what Link did to prevent the moon from falling by awakening the four gods and saved the people and the entire land. How link had gone back in time countless numbers of times to save the land. It was also in this conversation that Kafei reported to Sheik that only he, Anju, and two sisters named Romani and Cremia.

When he finished, it was well into the night and the moon was past its' highest point in the sky, however, he still wanted Sheik to tell him why Link didn't remember them and why Link had said he remembered loving Sheik the night before.

Sheik hesitated before speaking; he looked across the dark town below and finally chose to tell Kafei the truth. "Do you know about what happened to Link before he came here?" Sheik inquired.

"Yes," Kafei answered. "Link told about it… He also told me about you. How the princess betrayed him, but he thought that you were a fake, that you had been nothing but an illusion…"

"He didn't believe I was real?" Sheik breathed, anger burning in him and tears stinging his ruby eyes. When Link had been sent back in time, all of the people who would remember the time that never happened would only remember up to the point where Link had gone back in time. When a twelve year old Sheik had angrily asked a ten year old Zelda about it, she had said that he would be able to meet Link again and they could have a real relationship without having to save Hyrule and avoid Ganondorf, but that was before the Twilight and Ganondorf came again. That was before Midna had happened. And that was then that Link thought Zelda had lied to him. But then Link lost his memories, he didn't know how he used to feel towards Zelda, believing she had betrayed him and he loved her like a sister in this time. What would this mean for Link when he learned the truth through regaining his memories? Sheik wondered. Link had been sent back before he could learn that Sheik was a real person and alive, but did that matter now? Sheik new it would.

It was now that Sheik told Kafei about Link being brought into the village of Ordon after being found wounded with Epona. No one knew how Link had lost his memories, but it was believed that it was from trauma, Sheik said. He spoke of the Twilight and about Ganondorf's return, but not of Midna, the Twilight Princess. And he informed the blue haired young man about how Link had been sent back in time before Zelda told him that Sheik was a real person. It was also then that Kafei explained to Sheik that Link would often talk about the young Sheikah warrior and how he had been nothing but a lie, Link had come to Termina broken hearted, only to have to save them as well, but many still died.

By now it was into the hours after midnight and Sheik said he had to go back to Link, but thanked Kafei for telling him. But before he left the other remaining on the balcony he promised that they would regain Link's memories. It was a promise.

Sheik returned to the Knife Room where he and Link were staying while in Clock Town, he needed to figure out where the best place to begin working to regain Link's memories was. They could begin here in Clock Town, he thought, but he would have to discuss it with his lover.

In the room where Link and sheik were staying, Link was sitting solemnly on the far bed, seemly lost in thought. It was very late now and sleep sounded like the best option, but the flicking shadows from the flames dancing in the fireplace played across Link's face, making him look doleful.

Sheik crossed the room to join his green clad hero on the bed. He sat down, running his bandaged fingers through Link's straw colored hair and brushing his hat from his head and allowed it to fall behind them on the bed. He raised Link's face to look at him before kissing him.

"What's wrong?" He asked in a soft voice, sliding his hand down from Link's hair to place it on his lover's back. Sheik's red eyes reflected his concern in the shadows of the dancing fire.

Link raised his head to look directly into Sheik's eyes before he kissed him and drew back, but shook his head. He wasn't ready to speak about it, perhaps when the right time came but not tonight.

The Carnival of Time was nearing and the right circumstances were about to present themselves for Link and Sheik on their Quest to recover Link's lost memories.