Penn gets to meet the Master Horse properly this time, Link starts the Hyrule ride share craze, and Rauru finds parental controls are hard to foolproof.
Penn frowned at his notebook. He had the basic facts surrounding the Great Fairy's disappearance down now. Violynne made an excellent witness to quote. It was too bad about the Breezer cart though. And the horse. As Penn scribbled, a shadow of a horse fell into view. He looked up. Penn did not recognize the horse, but it seemed to have a well-packed saddlebag and gazed intelligently at Penn.
"See, you would be a great help if I could interview you. See that pair over there?" He pointed at the musical duo that were Violynne and Mastro. "Their horse got spooked off by a blond woman. No idea where she went. The horse and the woman both. Ah, but why am I wasting time talking to a horse?" Penn wandered back to the building to interview people and possibly find a spare wheel for the Breezer.
When Penn came back, there were two horses standing by the Breezer. Mastro was happily feeding apples to them. "Our beautiful horse came back to us! It's a miracle!"
"Well, I'll be! Did you have something to do with this?" Penn asked Epona. It was his imagination that this horse was understanding him, right? Well, there was no evidence to corroborate Penn's hunch yet that this horse was understanding him. Penn looked at the still broken Breezer. Someone would have to put the wheel back on.
He set the wheel down next to the cart and was going to fly off when he felt a tug on his shirt. The smart mare had clamped on with her teeth to prevent him taking off.
"I don't know anything about carpentry. Plus, I don't really have any tools..."
The horse stomped a foot.
After more witty banter of this variety, Penn gave up. He spent minutes trying to get the wheel on before the Stable Trotters felt sufficiently guilty to put work into the wagon instead of wringing their hands on the sidelines. Plus, once they caught Epona's judgemental glare, they could not stand it. Between Penn and Violynne, they were able to shove the wheel onto the axle. Penn and Violynne spent more time readjusting things to have the wheel spin properly.
With no further obstacles to their trip uphill, the Stable Trotters boarded the wagon. Epona followed behind to have a chat with the Great Fairy after the Trotters left.
Much to her dismay, Epona found no news of Link's whereabouts from Tera.
Link put the finishing touches on his new Korok Transport before carefully lifting the little guy into it. "Man I hope your friend has seen Zelda. All right, you ready to go? I added a little pull string there. If you get scared or need something, just give it a tug!" Link demonstrated how the string made a Korok Leaf flag pop up for him at the steering stick. "My friend Rauru and I will be right here if you need me."
"Okay, Mr. Hero and friend!" The tiny Korok's childlike cheerfulness made Rauru melt.
Link then handed the Korok some sliced honey apple. "Right, here's your snack for the road."
The Korok found himself dozing off in the back as Link steered in the direction of his friend. He was a little puzzled when it stopped. Link popped in his head with a smile. "Okay, so I need to go take care of some monsters in the way real quick, will that be all right?" He waited for the Korok's nodding. Link's boots stomped away in a direction somewhat ahead of them and to the right."I'll be back in a couple minutes! Rauru will keep you company!"
Rauru sat with the little guy and watched Link go with a raised eyebrow. "Don't do anything reckless now Link..."
The Korok then heard the sounds of Lizalfos screaming somewhere in the distance. There was a particularly high pitched one and it grew louder. Rauru's gaze followed the source of the screaming as it flew up an over the vehicle. Rauru winced at the monster's crash into the rocks. Link's footsteps came back to the steering stick.
"See! I'm back. And it's safe now!"
After dropping off the Korok, Link asked for a review out of five stars and more driver feedback questions.
Dropping the Korok off left Link free to check out the Geoglyph. It was on his way and, thankfully, pretty hard to miss. The whole thing with seeing Zelda's memories was just completely insane in Link's opinion and Rauru had to agree. Link figured he would be able to take a slight detour to see the temple Impa spoke of. There had to be something about Zelda there.
Since it was late, Rauru managed to convince Link that he should rest for the night. Link sat by the camping stove with the pair of forest spirits to hear the latest prank planning session. Rauru had hoped that Link would be able to relax and not obsess over the geoglyph if he had these tiny friends to speak with.
Rauru was more distracted than Link by the Koroks.
This meant Link was able to work without Rauru making worried comments at what he was about to do. Link had plans for the Purah Pad which was currently locked down. Link figured he could bypass the restrictions Zelda and Purah placed for him on the tech. Link diligently poked around menus trying to force his way into the settings. If he was lucky, Link figured he'd be able to give himself more creative freedom as an admin account. If he was really lucky, Link was hoping to get access to some of the old runes the Sheikah slate had.
Link was almost into the system when things took a turn for the worse.
"Link, what are you doing over there?" Rauru asked.
Rauru had been polite and unsuspecting, but with the way Link reacted, Rauru might as well have kicked down a door to yell "Halt there, lawbreaker!" Link fumbled. He grabbed the Purah Pad after a quick panicked scramble and failed to hide the wide-eyed fear of a guilty hacker.
"Link, wha twerey ou doin gwit hthepad?" Rauru asked this time, much to Link's bewilderment.
"Wait, what did you say? Sorry, I didn't get that."
Rauru looked confused too. "Ihav enoi deawh atyou said. Wa sntthe padsup posedt obetr anslating forus?"
The two came to the horrific realization that the translator Zelda programmed in specifically for them was no longer operational. Link set the Purah Pad down gently and tried to see if he could just get the translator back on.
Link tried and tried all night long before giving up. He knew he would have to go back to ask Purah and Robbie for help on this one. This meant he was going to have to face their disapproval. "I am going to be in soooo much trouble.
"Youw ereab letotu rnito ffwit hout rea lizi ngith ow?"
Okay so I know the term 'hacker' doesn't really apply here but it gets the idea across. I've managed to mess up settings on electronics before and I've seen some parental controls get broken so it isn't that far fetched that the Pad could run into a similar problem.