“I wonder how big this forest really is…” asked Saria into space.
“Hmm, the skull kids say they have not explored it much. Its big I’m sure, but full of danger. You must realize Saria, we form a mutual relationship with the Deku Trees: they spawn us, and protect us. We in return, plant Deku trees and look after the sprouts. Therefore, we need not wander”, Domi explained. He was long winded and loved to lecture about his knowledge.
“Well I’m going to explore it one day and map it out, I’ll explore every last acre of it!” Exclaimed Saria.
“Oh dear me, you are bound to come to an early end doing stuff like that, Link will accompany you for that. What an adventure that will be”, Domi murmured as they made their way through the Sacred Forest Meadow.
Domi looked up and sighed: “Why does it seem we always end up here?” He moaned. They walked up some old stone stairs to where the entrance to the Forest Temple was. Usually Saria would sit on an old tree stump here in this small meadow in front of the Temple. That was when Link usually came along. Saria would play her ocarina while Link would run around waving his Deku stick pretending to slay who knows what. But today Domi was with her and he probably knew a thing or two about the Temple so she proceeded up the ladder and went into the Temple with Domi following behind.
They walked through the entrance corridor and into the main hall. It was a great room with a great domed ceiling. The great stone walls were covered with ivy. Under the dome was a balcony that circled the room. Saria and Domi were on the bottom floor, which had four sets of stairs, one on each side of the lair. In the middle of the room were four torches and a pedestal. They proceeded through a small door in the far corner of the hall. They found themselves in a large courtyard. It had great, tall stone walls with ivy crawling up them. In front of them was a small stream with a bridge running over it and behind that a shrine with some fallen pillars and some flowers now growing wild and growing all about that area. The whole place possessed a strange, surreal almost eerie air about it. Here was a massive temple, ancient, not built by Kokiri hands, in the middle of nowhere.
“Who built this Temple Domi?” Asked Saria curiously. Domi looked around.
“That’s one of the few questions that befuddles me… it wasn’t Kokiri who built it… some civilization that has died out since Kokiri began living here under the Great Deku tree”, He explained.
“But why did they build it?” Persisted Saria looking around in amazement at the structure, she had always marveled at the Temple.
“I dunno, but by the looks of it it seems almost as if it were built to protect something. Kind of strange wouldn’t you say?” Said Domi.
“Yeah, are you ready to head back to the village? I want to check on Link, and I feel like we’re being watched too”, Saria said and the two of them began to walk back out of the woods to the village.