Nights got longer and plants died. This was called "winter." Mido preferred "autumn," when things were red and yellow and you could grab a pear off any tree. You had to have "winter" sometimes. The Great Deku Tree said so, and Saria said so, and Mido told everyone who complained the same thing, even if he didn't understand. But they were having "winter" a lot, it seemed like. Yesterday had been "spring." Today was "winter" again. He had started carving marks into a tally stick to see how much "winter" there was. There were monsters on the path to the Great Deku Tree and it was "winter" for two hundred and four days.