Matoya's Cave

In Final Fantasy 1, there is this iconic moment when you first enter Matoya's Cave just to the north of Cornelia. You'd know this if you were a dork like me, but you'd also know that the music in that cave is absolutely enchanting for some reason.

That music captured me good last summer when my family and I were staying in Washington just outside of Seattle. I was toting around a couple of ocarinas that had been the objects of my new fascination at the time, and I managed to slowly figure out how to play the music from Matoya's Cave. 

The song just spoke to me. It still does. Songs are magic like that, and when you learn to recreate them you learn how to perform real magic. For me, I have always felt that music sends me back to other times, often many different timelines at once. I can feel the passing of history between the time I first hear a song and the present when I can recreate it the moment I pick up an instrument.

I'd like to make a song like that someday.