Continuing into Faron Woods, I come across a strange little creature known as a kikwi.
Smurf-Fi informed me that it was giving off dowsing signals. Dowsing is like a signal when you’re using the first-person looking-around view that tells you which direction something is. Previously, it had only worked to find Zelda’s location, but these kikwi creatures are giving off signals as well. Anyway, I keep following this kikwi through the woods. Each time I find him, he runs off and hides somewhere else. Eventually he realizes I’m not trying to hurt him and starts talking to me more.
He tells me that Zelda went off with the Kikwi elder. Smurf-Fi pops out of my sword (scaring the poor creature to death) and tells me to keep dowsing to find the elder. Along the way, an enemy breaks my shield.
Eventually I do find the elder. He looks a little…uhh…nutty.
He basically tells me that he can’t remember where Zelda was going. But if I find his three other missing kikwis, then he will remember. I have no choice, so I start looking for them. I search. And search. And search. Looking high and low. They are good at hiding. It takes me a very long time, but I eventually find them.
I go back to the elder and he conveniently, suddenly remembers where Zelda went. To the temple.
I had seen the temple while searching for kikwis, but I was unable to enter it. But the elder gives me something helpful…a slingshot!
Unfortunately, the temple isn’t a dungeon itself. It just leads me to a path into the deep woods. Presumably, this leads me to the dungeon. But after a tiring day of searching for critters, I decided to stop and save my game. With a dungeon presumably coming up, I think I’ll probably need a shield. I’m afraid I’m going to have to go all the way back up to the sky to get it, though. Oh well, I’ll do that next time.