"I'll pass on the compliment! He's quite proud of his dyes. Almost too proud and obsessed sometimes, but," shrug, "Husbands and their work, what am I supposed to do? He loves it."

"What sort of custom jobs do you get requests for if you don't mind me asking?"

"Paint is usually special order for us. Wood stains and painting metal on another metal and painting things rust-proof and hair dye..."

"Interesting. So generally ways to turn things various different colors. Has he figured out how to make things glow in the dark?"

"Oh, yes. But luminous stone is rare and expensive."

"Interesting, that wasn't the type of glow in the dark I was thinking of. There are ways to make things glow in the dark that charges with sunlight and then continues glowing for a time after the sun has set, possibly the whole night depending. One of the more common ways to do that is with a compound made from zinc and sulfide."

Sayge looks over towards him, still pouring red fluid blindly.

He sets his stuff down and walks over towards the counter. His bright blue hair tries to distract from a somewhat buggy-looking face. "Well, well, well! Please, continue explaining!"

"So, materials like the one I mentioned are called phosphors, when they're hit by light they get charged up and reemit light slowly over a period of time, less expensive ones don't last that long I think the zinc sulfide mix lasts less than an hour after it stops getting hit by new light, more expensive ones use rarer metals but last much longer. You can also mix them with radioactive substances to make the glow continuous but that gets dangerous in large amounts."

Sayge wants to learn all about phosphor chemistry! Glowing dye that's cheaper than luminous stone is an exciting idea!

Magical plants here have somewhat weird interactions with chemistry, has he tried using roasted armoranth to- No? Okay, he'll have to experiment. He can probably make zinc. He can definitely make sulfides.

zabna is happy to indulge. He knows a lot about pure chemistry but not much about magical plants.

The magical plants are a big deal. Sayge doesn't really have formal chemistry-type understanding of them, but zabna can definitely learn a lot. Sayge is a chatterbox.

zabna does learn a lot. Eventually, he wishes Sayge well and promises to come back at some point and talk some more. Then he heads back out and continues wandering the town. While he walks he keeps an eye out for anything magically strange nearby.

A signature down a side-path, a little away from the town proper, is like the Goddess Statues he's seen a couple of. But not quite like them.

He walks over to it and studies it more closely.

This statue looks... Different. The face is angry, and it has a pair of horns. It's not Hylia. Or else it's a corrupted version of her.

There is an extremely strong connection here. A thick tangle of magical power, shaped into a - almost a barrier? If the magic in the statue back at Rito Village was a comms link, this would be more like a sophisticated network firewall.

Interesting, he'll have to mention it to Link at some point when he sees her. Presumably if it weren't for his anti mind magic defense it might be trying to communicate with him.

The eyes glimmer if he looks at them just right. But the filthy, unwashed stone is still and silent. It doesn't have a clearer way of communicating than that, apparently.

He shrugs then continues exploring the town. Eventually he feels he got a sufficient sense for it and picks out the next closest settlement from his map.

Kakariko Village is closest by road, but a coastal village called Lurelin Village is closest as the crow flies.

He'll visit Kakariko, he's being fairly open with his teleportation but it's best not to have to resort to that explanation.

Kakariko Village is past some interesting rock formations, another tall tower like the one Link activated, a long crumbling stone wall and a swamp full of heaps of destroyed Guardians, and a mountain road.

The village itself seems peaceful and quiet. It has a markedly different building style, and lanterns, wooden charms, wooden arches and ropes trailing over entranceways decorate the whole area. Everyone here is wearing a different sort of clothes than other Hylians, too - possibly traditional in some way.

zabna stops by the Guardian wreckage. Is there anything salvageable?

An occasional bit or bob is salvageable. But there's a lot of wreckage, to be thorough he'd be here a while.

He has time and it might give them a better sense for the structure and vulnerabilities of these guardians.

It's pretty difficult to understand how Guardians work just from looking at the wrecked ones. Once again, the materials they're made of are clearly magical in some way. The legs' joints seem to be a weak point. He can eventually work out approximately where the power source and central computer would be.