Waking of Thursday, April 6, 2017 ~ 6
Well I’d hiked to the dam and
across to the north side once already. I could do it again. So I did.
But blast and confusticate
that creeping PIANO always following me around! Jumping up from the bare stone
whenever I least expect it.... Snaking out of the windswept grass to whisper
dreadful nothings up my spine—WHY!
Uhuhuhh.... it gives me the jibblies, man.... .__.;
The world is wild.
The world is wild.
<3
I eventually hiked back toward a
part of the winding road I had once traversed—the long road to Zora’s Domain.
From there I deviated away from the track and made my way to a high precipice
where I could see the last few bridges to the Domain proper laid out below me.
I paraglided in, landing partway
along the last bridge—on top of one of its arches, actually. Not by design....
but I enjoyed the view and then hopped down to go the last stretch on foot.
Rivan and Dunma still guarded the
outermost gate; I said hello.... and then set about looking for Fronk.
He wasn’t in the square, and he
wasn’t back around the sleeping quarters; maybe he was on one of the
stairways....
I came back to the deck above the
square and descended one of the grand staircases. It was quite empty, but in
passing I noticed a Hylian on the
adjacent rampway—a separate little footpath that wound in a sinuous course
around the staircase.
It was rare to see Hylians here
even now, but I had already seen at least one. Maybe more and more would come
to visit again.
But I did a double take.
That Hylian was talking to the
short, orange Zora. He was talking to
Finley.
Why, that must’ve been Sasan!
He made it! 8D
I ran right back up the staircase
and vaulted over the railing. It was something like a hundred-foot drop between
them, but the staircase and the rampway platform were really quite close enough together that I could make the jump
easily.
They were both so happy to see me
again. They’d really hit it off it seemed! Well good for them. ^_^ Heh, and
Finley was advising Sasan to do lots of swimming and lifting and other
exercises—to get those big muscles
he’d promised her!
And they told me they’d thought it
over, and really wanted to thank me for helping to bring them together—and they
gave me a gold rupee.
Ooh-la-la, that was worth three hundred.
Maybe I’d still have some pocket
change left over if and when I bought my house after all!
In visiting the other denizens of
Zora’s Domain yet again I learned a few more things.
In Dento’s workshop, wondering if
he could perhaps just repair the
Lightscale Trident I had been given, I found out that in order for him to make
a new trident, he would need me to bring him some materials—including diamonds. Two diamonds for the
Ceremonial Trident.... probably more
for the Lightscale Trident....
So that’s what the diamonds were
for. Good to keep in mind....
I also sauntered up to Torfeau for
the first time since I’d slain the Ralis Pond Hinox, fully expecting an attaboy
and maybe some kind of reward.
But all she said was, “So, ready to
give it a try?”
:c
I ran out to Ralis Pond and
discovered, much to my dismay, that even great fat minibosses like the Hinoxes must come back to life at Blood
Moon.
It was there again.
Ah, poop.
But.... armed with my new know-how,
I was able to get rid of it once again using far fewer arrows. And when I went
to see Torfeau again—(“That stench,”
she said, and knew I had done the deed!)—she gave me a silver rupee. One hundred. Excellent.
And BY THE WAY, guess
what the Hinox had dropped....
A
Korok Leaf! Ah-HAA!! Oh I finally
had a Korok Leaf in my inventory!
I was going to GO places with THIS....! C8
At length among my wanderings, I did find Fronk, away in some unobtrusive
corner and hard about his work.
He told me that he wanted to help
me in any way he possibly could, and
I let him know I would certainly welcome that.
“Where could she be?” I asked, for I really had looked everywhere.
“If Ledo’s group didn’t find
her....” Fronk began, and I wondered if that was what Ledo had been doing when
I’d first met him, searching for Mei.... (and
a strong Hylian for the Prince, of course).
Fronk hypothesized a possibility or
two about where she could have ended up along the Zora River before admitting, “Worst-case scenario, she might have
washed all the way to Lake Hylia.”
Lake
Hylia?
Where
in Hyrule was that?
And the Zora River.... That seemed to be what it was called above the wetlands.... Was that what it
was called downstream by the Woodland Stable as well? I couldn’t tell because
my map didn’t extend that far, blast
it....
Maybe she really had washed further down that river....
....
And maybe I should’ve spoken with Fronk
in the first place—
It was in the past.
And my wanderings had not been
fruitless.
But....
But....
in following the river.... in following that road along the river, I had come
closer, and closer, and closer to
Hyrule Castle.
I had seen the signpost right
beside the stable: “Hyrule Castle ➔”.
Straight up the road. Not even the mystery-hungry Zorona ever went that way.... he always stopped his horse within
breathing distance of the stable, if he was heading that way.
Leastways every time I saw him.
What if the river wound too close
to the castle? What if it ran right through it?
What if it passed right through the den of the beast?
