Waking of Tuesday, June 5, 2018 ~ 2
Hateno Tower was fabulously tall.
And it overlooked that stretch of road where I had met Teli.
Actually.... it overlooked a lot of
things, and I had to play marker games on my map and through my scope before I
was able to locate the miniscule strip of beige between a tiny cliff and a
pinprick lake that I was looking for.
But the distance wasn’t too great
for my paraglider.
I swooped in, shed some leftover
altitude and perched on a great big spire of stone beside the small lake. I
felt like some bird of prey as I scanned the little valley.... and there was
Teli on the path, just making his way into the bottleneck preceding the Cliffs
of Quince to the west....
I swooped down to catch him before
he could get too far, and found that he was carrying different wares this time,
but no cores.
Hmmm.
I warped back to Hateno Tower and
tried this approach a few times. The results were variable, but.... it seemed a
bit of patience was in order....
In the meantime I warped back to
Dueling Peaks. Maybe I was thinking again of going to the desert. Maybe I was
just continuing to look for ways to waste time. I don’t really remember, because the
latter won out, and was then therefore free to rewrite the history of my inner
battles as it saw fit.... had I had any.
I decided, after a very long time of avoiding it, to once
again take on Rensa in his horse-taming challenge—the same challenge that had
brought my beloved Brown to me, if
you recall—or rather, that had left the brown horse standing stark in the
field, caught between the wild and the domestic, which I had then decided out
of a sense of duty to take on and care for as my own.
You know I do not like to attempt
to take a horse out of the wild lightly.
My efforts this time would have to
be perfect.... Or close enough to it.
Rensa started the clock and I was off. Sprinting into the fields I quickly
found a small herd grazing.... I was wearing my Stealth Suit for an extra edge,
but as I neared the herd, I really wondered how much good it would do me. I
didn’t have to worry about making a sound, even at high speed—But not every
horse would turn its gaze away at the same time, and so I found myself pinned
in a crouch afterall.
Some horses trotted away, but I was
able to come close behind one handsome red
one....
And on I jumped, and soothed it to
a huffing standstill before urging it back toward the stable!
I
would make it this time.... I would
make it....
And I did. With twenty or thirty
seconds to spare, no less. Out of two minutes. Not bad.
And Rensa rewarded me with a
fifty-rupee purse.
Cool.
But I did not register the horse.
Instead, I rode him all the way to Gerudo Canyon, admiring
his form from all angles as he picked up the road and followed it. He was a
handsome beast: red body, white socks and muzzle, fiery mane and tail....
I woulda called him Firefoot.
But I didn’t.
I sold him to a man named Zyle, for
three hundred rupees.
I had met Zyle many, many moons
previously, in Gerudo Canyon. He was stranded halfway from anywhere in a little
alcove against the canyon wall, just waiting for someone who would be willing
to sell him a good, strong mount....
As the one who had tamed it and
ridden it so far already, I felt a certain amount of responsibility toward the
fiery steed. It was hard to hand him over.... But....
Zyle would take good care of him.
After the exchange, Zyle thanked me
for my help, and started walking his new horse toward the Gerudo Canyon Stable.
I walked with him.
Ah
what fine screens of the two of us traveling and glancing as though in friendly
conversation on the long and dusty road.... I wished I could still save
screenshots.
I had thought to see what would
happen if I walked all the way to the stable with Zyle, but.... well, the NPCs,
they just move so slowly....
I’m afraid I became impatient, and
got a little ahead of myself running circles around my companions, and in my
haste.... I lost them.
Once they fell out of proximity,
the game depopulated them.
Hhhhh.
Well....
I continued on foot to the Gerudo
Canyon Stable, arriving there just after midday, the one or two o’clock hour,
and.... I slept until the evening.
