Waking of Wednesday, March 29, 2017
The unholy smoke started curling
from the ground, and I began to sprint up the stairs, accidentally chasing a
poor hapless fox up in front of me. There was a bed up on top of the Reservoir
wall, and I really wanted to sleep in
it before the Blood Moon shone—
I was five feet from it when the
final crash of darkness sounded, and the Princess’ voice warned me to once
again please be careful.
Oh but I was being careful, I
thought as I came back to myself. I was going to have a good long sleep in this
bed. You see because I wasn’t feeling very well, because a Hinox had fallen on
top of me.
The rest I had until the morning
was most welcome....
Earlier, I had paraglided down from
Vah Ruta’s high spring and begun combing the Domain once more for those
historical tablets, only becoming distracted by the other Zoras’ issues once or
twice.... or thrice.... along the way.
I found a few new tablets, with
some interesting and informative histories on them! But there were still a few
more, somewhere waiting out there. Jiahto offered to tell me where some of them
were, but I told him it was okay; I’d find them.
In fact, I was finding quite a lot
in my searchings, including more luminous stones. But Ledo was still sleeping when I came back to him
again.
One of Mei’s and Fronk’s children,
Tumbo, was selling frogs to raise money while his mother was.... not working,
so I donated some of my Hot-Footed Frogs to him. And in the square by the
fountain, one Zora child named Keye, while at play, unintentionally gave me a
helpful hint about the pedestal at Veiled Falls—perhaps I should try thrusting
the trident into the pedestal.
Well, I tried it, with Mipha’s
Lightscale Trident, which I had been loathe to actually use. But nothing happened. And now the Lightscale Trident doesn’t
have its pristine luster in my inventory anymore. However, Dento assured me
that I could come to him if it ever broke, and he could remake it for me. He’s
handy in a workshop, that one.
But I’m still not sure if I’ve ever
seen the Ceremonial Trident Trello
keeps talking about; he said he dropped it somewhere under a bridge....
Guess I’ll just keep looking.
From Veiled Falls.... well, I was
close enough to Ralis Pond to go try and have a go at Torfeau’s Hinox.... so I goed.
It was Torfeau who had asked me if
I would try and kill it.
Of course it had been Torfeau. She’s the one always practicing with
her spear, the first Zora I had seen wearing armor. Tula and Tona were only
concerned with their Prince Sidon Fanclubbery.
Well, it started with the letter T
anyway.
I drank a sneaky elixir and crept
up to the big sleeping Hinox, my heart thumping madly, thinking maybe I could
crawl on top of it to steal things off its necklace. And I did come quite close
to it. Right next to it, touching it, even walking
into it in fact. But I could gain no purchase to climb.
Instead, I thought Oh just blow it and began hacking at it with
my Special Thirty-Eight Big Stick. It got to its feet....
Never hack the legs out from under
a Hinox at close quarters.
You will regret it.
After a narrow escape and a good
long rest and for my second attempt at
the Hinox.... I just took David’s approach. Which, honestly, was kind of my
approach too, or it would have been if I’d engaged a Hinox before now. It was a
good approach—why would I think to go
and start attacking one directly? In reach of its—oh Farore they’re so ugly....
Instead! I speared up through the
Veiled Falls, made my way to the clifftop above Ralis Pond, and invoked the beautiful
aid of Ja Baij.
Of course, the bombs were slow, and
the great brute kept wandering—didn’t have a clue who was pelting it with tiny
explosives. And so I switched to arrows. A bit faster, and more damaging, so that in a few moments.... I had slain my very first Hinox.
Felt good to clear up Ralis Pond of
that filth.
Ralis....
There was a name I respected.
When I finally caught Ledo awake
and at his work, I gave him the ten luminous stones. He made a great and
humorous fuss about counting them all out—and then he rewarded me with diamonds.
Oh
my, but I must look into what those could be used for, or how much they
could be sold for—
I might finally claim that house in
Hateno Village to be.... a home for
me....
Ledo invited me to bring him any
more luminous stones I might find, though he said any other sets of ten he’d
only trade me one diamond for, not
two.
Well that was fine with me! C8
I had eleven more on me just then,
but....
Yes I should like to research this.
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