Grumblers

Waking of Saturday, March 11, 2017 ~ 2

Grumblers

Ledo had been most patient with me, but now it was time for me to move on. Sure I’d head up the river. But not before I stopped at that tower! It was very close and looked most accessible. Crawling and surrounded with enemies no doubt, but it was just at the top of a big hill! I could get there....

I ran back to the shallows and continued my way through the wetlands. It really started to pour along the way and, as I neared an island, I heard it—a muffled kind of moaning. Like a wheezing elephant.

I’d heard it once before on the Sahasra Slope. Actually it had reminded me of the deep, distorted thrumming of the Great Fairy before her power was restored. But.... it had felt different. I hadn’t sought it out then.

But now I could see what I believed to be the source of it, right in front of me on one of the bigger islets.

There amid a stand of trees was something huge and red, with white highlights, squatted on the grassy ground.

Another fairy-cocoon?

I watched it closely through the rainy haze, trying to make sense of its shape, until it scratched its nose.

Definitely not a fairy-cocoon.

It seemed to be lying on its back, sleeping I think.

Its skin was the same color as bokoblin- and moblin-skin.

Oh my gash. What—

I got out my pictograph box and took a long-distance shot, not daring to get closer.

A Hinox, my Sheikah Slate identified it as. The largest monster to call Hyrule home, it said.

Oh my.

....

Well, that was one sleeping dog I decided to let lie. Happy the rain was making such a din, I nonetheless crept quietly along the outskirts of the little islet until I came to another bridge that led away toward the hill with the tower.