Waking of Saturday, July 28, 2018 ~ 7
I came back down just outside
Gerudo Town.
They could all rest easy now that
the Hero had subdued the imminent danger stomping around out in the desert.
But they still wouldn’t let a voe
come into town.
....Eh. I had wondered.
I changed clothes right in front of
them and jogged through the gate.
Actually all the townsfolk kept
talking about how Chief Riju had been
the one to put the danger down.... which.... I guess I was okay with. She had
been right out there with me, surfing behind Patricia. Right under the Divine
Beast’s feet. And I had been in disguise after all. Just some lowly common
Hylian vai, assisting the Chief....
I had just imagined some moment
when I would be recognized and accepted and able to walk around freely in this
place.... No exception even for the Hero
of Legend....?
Nope.
Still no boys allowed.
Ah well.
Chief Riju was waiting for me in
her throne room. She gave an outpouring of gratitude at my appearance—her
people were happy again, and relieved. Stress had been reduced all through the
town—“Stress”. Lol, women. XD
As thanks for my help in calming
Vah Naboris and saving her people, she offered me the Scimitar of the Seven, along with the Daybreaker, the sword and shield wielded by the Champion Urbosa
herself. Riju could think of no more appropriate use for them than to be
wielded by the Hero of Hyrule against the Calamity that had claimed their original
owner.
Unfortunately there was no room for
them in my inventory.
There was something else in the
room, however, which rather caught my eye....
Mounted handsomely on a pedestal a
little to Riju’s right was the Thunder
Helm.
When I examined it, and Riju
reacted, there was only one unbecomingly brazen option I was given to say: “I
want the Thunder Helm.”
Both Riju and Buliara voiced a
polite but firm opposition to this—well, maybe not so polite on Buliara’s
account. The helm was an heirloom of the Gerudo; it belonged here.
But.... considering all that I had
done for them.... and all that I had yet
to do, for all of Hyrule....
Riju agreed to lend me the Thunder Helm. If....
I could continue to live up to the title of Hero,
and resolve all the town’s ills. The Divine Beast was no longer a threat, but
that didn’t make life automatically perfect. If I could solve the whole town’s
problems, and bring the smiles back to her people.... then and only then would
Chief Riju lend me the Thunder Helm.
Well....
Hero work was what I
did best.
I left the palace and heard from
the garrison that Barta.... was in
trouble again.
But
I had seen her! She had escaped from the Yiga Nest since I had last been
there, and I had seen her here in the barracks! Getting raked by her superiors....
But now.... her fellow warriors
told me she was in Dragon’s Exile.
Home of Moldugas. Mmmm but I was more confident
against Moldugas.... but.... Well I had gathered she was kind of reckless, but.... what in the world was
she doing down there? Part of me could only wonder, and part of me was.... hungrily delighted at an excuse to
venture down to investigate the Great
Skeleton....
Wandering further around Gerudo
Town I drifted into the canteen, but could still find no clues about the
password, and so threw the barrel at the ladies again.
What
other ills were there around town for me to solve....? I was quite out of ideas, but at length I did find one little vai
to rescue: a child named Dalia.
Dalia wanted to plant an orchard in
an unused, obscure corner of town. But so much litter kept flowing down the
aqueducts into the water trough....
!! D8<
“CalybaaAAANN!” I huffed as I turned to crawl up the wall.
I found her, and I told her what
her face-stuffing rind-waste was doing to poor little Dalia’s orchard plans—the kid had been crying....
Upon hearing of the child’s plight,
Calyban agreed to quit chucking her rinds down the stream—but she wouldn’t do
it for free. She wasn’t that kind of person. She enjoyed her Hydromelons for
sure, but what she really wanted to
taste were Wildberries. The kind that
grew high up on the freezing cold steps of the Gerudo Highlands. If I could
bring her some of those—like ten—then
she would quit from her little rind-chucking hidey-hole.
Fortunately I just happened to have
enough Wildberries in my pockets; I gave her some.
“Oh! Oh they’re so delicious!” Calyban remarked, or
something like it. So juicy and flavorful, sweeter than anything she’d ever
tasted.
Evidently it put her in a very good mood, for she then decided that,
in addition to stopping her littering, she would even go help little Dalia
clean up!
Well that was just dandy. ^_^
The screen faded out and back in,
and I was alone on top of the wall.
Time
to check up on Dalia!
I followed the course of the
aqueduct back the way I had come—there were so
many paths.... But I found the one path I was looking for, and dropped
down into Dalia’s little shaded corner.
I have to admit, it looked much
nicer than when I had left it!
And Dalia was smiling again—she was
so happy that her ground was now
properly prepared. And she was delighted to relate to me that a vai she’d never
met had come and helped her clean it up! And
given her some Wilberries to boot!
For my help, Dalia gave me a
Hydromelon she had gotten from the other vai as well. Aww.... ^_^
And then.... she said I could come
get Wildberries from her little orchard whenever I wanted! 8D
And I did, later, when her bushes
were planted and growing—three bushes of two berries each. I plucked the bush
on the right clean, but.... I left the rest for Dalia.
It was her orchard, after all.
