[Link listens but hears the words as if they're being spoken under water. Most of it is muffled. He sighs and shifts around to stand at Cao Pi's opposite shoulder, tapping one ear.]

Sorry...I didn't catch all that. One of those bastards got me good, right in the ear.

[Some blood from that would still stains his collar and crusts around his earlobe.]

You were saying something about storing light?

[His gaze follows the light to shore and he looks down between his feet to see a tiny sprout of grass.

No, impossible!

He shakes his head and looks again. He squints at it with one eye then another... Each time he sees the same thing: A small, green tuft peaking out between the pebbles.]

Look!

[With a sharp gasp he lifts his gloved hand and points downward.]