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One foot after the other, you proceed down the path, past the fisherman, and to the pier. Adrenaline starts to buzz in your face and hands and your heart catches when you take that first step onto the wood planks. Despite having running across the docks countless times, today that step is the crossing of an invisible threshold.
At the end, you come upon <span class="mu-s">Yaro</span> while he is pulling a crab trap up from the seabed by a dirty old rope. When he heaves it onto the deck, he sighs, and turns, noticing you at last. <span class="mu-s">Yaro</span> is a man late in years, with a bundle of bamboo fashioned into a peg-leg below his left knee, and a pigskin eyepatch dyed white, with a red <span class="mu-s">Eye of Sheikah</span> stitched into its center. He has a stern look as he first appraises you, which then relents to a half smile. His goatee and mustache are thin and long, blowing in the sea breeze, and he's got a small length of driftwood in his hair, keeping it done up as a top knot.
<span class="mu-g">"Young master <span class="mu-s">Zuzo</span>, at last it is your day to visit the old <span class="mu-s">Temple</span> and enter the next chapter of your life. Hmmmm..."</span> He says, greeting you. A pause hangs in the air, and he eventually nods deeply a few times. <span class="mu-g">"Yes, yes, I would say you are quite ready, yes. Come for your father's old <span class="mu-s">canoe</span>, I presume? I have kept it safe since his having disappeared all those years ago, of course, in hopes that he would return for it before the time came to pass it on to you. I'm sorry that did not happen, my friend. But I will hold on to hope that I may see him again."</span>
You tense, and your breathing slows. You've long since accepted that you won't see your father again. It's... Well, <span class="mu-s">Yaro's</span> words are kind, but it's unpleasant for someone else to cling to that hope. Still, he has been a friend to your family for longer than you have known him, and you're glad he is here for you today.
<span class="mu-s">Yaro</span> sighs, and gestures to the little wooden boat. <span class="mu-g">"But of course, on this day, you are the man of your family, and it is time for you to follow in the footsteps of so many before. I remember the day when your father came of age, you know? He was so curious about the secrets of the past, and so inspired by his <span class="mu-s">Trial</span>, he dedicated his life to uncovering the mysteries of the ancient <span class="mu-s">Sheikah</span>."</span> He goes on. At that point, he begins pointing to the islands along the <span class="mu-s">Atoll</span>. <span class="mu-g">"That first one there is <span class="mu-s">Ironclad Island</span>, where our ancestors built warships for the royal navy. The small one, there, is <span class="mu-s">Echo Island</span>. None go there anymore, it is long abandoned, and all that's left is the old <span class="mu-s">Sheikah Stepwell</span>, and the ruins of the <span class="mu-s">Pagoda of Echoes</span>. The one just near it, the large one, you see it? That is where you will go, <span class="mu-s">Catacomb Island</span>, the resting place of our people for generations, and the site of the ancient <span class="mu-s">Shadow Temple</span>, which you must enter to recover a worthy <span class="mu-s">Artifact</span>."</span>
>Cont'd
