Again, very sorry this chapter took so long. It just didn't want to come together. But I haven't given up on this story, and I won't until Year Three is finished.
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The Company met Teba at Rito Stable a few hours later, including Linhardt and Annette, who had teleported to them using a Shrine in the village. Teba had hoped there would be weapons within after learning about the weapon vaults in and around Kakariko Village, Zora's Domain, and Death Mountain, but to his dismay, all it contained was a puzzle for Link.
With the entire group having gathered, they began the walk to the Flight Range.
"We could get there faster if we could take our horses," Hilda noted.
"I don't own a horse, and even if you were to lend one to me, it wouldn't help, because I don't know how to ride one," Teba said. "You could teach me, but that would take longer than the time you would save by riding. It's only a few hours' walk anyway."
"You like to cut corners, don't ya?" Cyril asked Hilda.
"Why shouldn't I cut corners?" Hilda asked. "Life shouldn't have corners. It's supposed to be a circle. Why else would people talk about 'the circle of life?' You never hear about 'the square of life' or 'the rectangle of life,' do you? It's 'the circle of life,' and circles don't have corners."
"That is not what that metaphor means, and you know it," Lysithea said.
"Actually, one could argue that a circle has infinite corners," Annette suggested. "With there being no straight lines in a circle, it could be argued that any three consecutive points on the circle form an angle. So if you think about it, a circle is nothing but corners."
"But the most common definition of a corner of a curve is that it's where the curve has no tangent," Linhardt chimed in. "And there is no point in a circle where it has no tangent. So Hilda is right. Circles don't have corners."
"But in order to compute upper and lower bounds of pi, mathematicians approximated the circle with polygons with increasing numbers of corners," Annette argued. "Since no polygon equals the circle, you have to add an infinite amount of corners to compute pi exactly."
"That's only if you look at a circle as a limit of a regular polygon as it gains more corners," Linhardt argued. "You might as well divide a nonzero number by zero and say the result is infinity."
As the two of them continued their talk of mathematics that he couldn't begin to understand, Link turned his attention to Teba. Teba didn't seem to be amused by the conversation.
Teba wasn't much like Kass, and from what Link remembered, he wasn't much like Revali either. He was cold. Quiet. Humorless. Link wasn't sure if this was his default state of being, or if it was a result of his worry for his people.
Several hours of trudging through the snow later, the Company reached a wall-less hut at the top of the path, next to a large depression in the ground, ringed by mountainous rock.
"There it is," Teba said, pausing to look up at the dark hut. "The Flight Range. Revali created it over one hundred years ago to train Rito children in aerial combat."
"I think I've been there before," Link said, frowning. Now that he could see the hut in the distance, it seemed familiar to Link in the way that made him certain that he had seen it before, but the memories were still locked away.
"May we be going inside now?" Petra asked. Teba nodded and beckoned them in. The Flight Range was quite a bit bigger than it looked from the outside.
"Normally only Rito make use of the Flight Range, for what I feel should be obvious reasons," Teba noted. "But occasionally we get Hylian or Sheikah visitors who want to know how it feels to fly. Someone decided they could make some rupees off of those people." He opened a locker and removed five paragliders. "Occasionally we rent these out to visitors and allow them to use them in the Flight Range."
"I have one of those," Link said, removing his paraglider from the Korok Pouch.
Teba nodded. "So I can get six of you up there. Normally, I would try to train the six best fighters among you to be as good at using the paragliders as you can be. We don't have time for that. So we're going to have to decide who the strike team will be based on who has the most natural talent with the paragliders."
"Uh...Teba? Link is the only one who has ever used a paraglider, we won't have much time for training, and trained Rito warriors didn't do so well against Medoh. To be honest, I'm not liking our chances that much," Claude admitted.
"Normally, you would have no chance up there," Teba admitted. "But I happen to have a way to equalize. It will only work if you have some skill at riding the air currents, though. To show me which of you have what it takes, I want to test you all over the air currents produced by the hot springs beneath the Flight Range."
Hubert looked over the edge of the platform, and his face grew even paler than it already was. "Can I opt out of this?"