Some parts of the land of Hyrule are rather peaceful.
It's pleasantly cool out. There is a wide open grassy field, cliffs on two sides, a patch of woods on the third, and an honestly intimidating view of high cliffs in the distance off to the right.
There's a campfire here, still burning, though no sign of whoever was using it.
All in all, not necessarily a bad place to get banished to.
... she'll do the latter. In the meanwhile she sets it to plot a course towards the mountains and ping her if anything tries to attack it.
The Guardian does as she asks.
...Is she still paying attention when it starts terrifying travelers into diving straight off their horses and into the river a few minutes later? Probably not. The Guardian proceeds.
She is blissfully unaware of this and is travelling on-foot so she can meet it halfway through the mountain passage.
After an hour and a half-
Guardian #5742 is being attacked. Combatants: One Hylian.
... damn it, she was really hoping she could meet up with it first.
Naomi finds a spot that's out of the way, a surface to lean against, and arranges her limbs again to look like she's meditating. She goes out and searches for the Guardian and enters it, seeing through its eyes instead of hers within the half-second.
Yep that is a Hylian. On a horse. Chasing her pet guardian and hitting its legs with a sword.
Well, that's inconvenient. How about if it starts cowering like a frightened dog?
Her pet Guardian is kind of too big and not mobile in the right ways for that, but it can try. The sudden shift in behavior does not convince this Hylian to stop hitting it.
...The Guardian reports minor systems damage.
It can kinda dance. Two strange, new behaviors in a row? And it's not shooting at her. "What the fuck is this thing doing?"
Nice, that worked!
Hmm, should she continue to have it travel through the pass or stay put?
... she has it mark a smiley face in the ground.
How should she tell her to stay? Does she have enough space to write "friend"? She tries that.
It's kind of tricky to get fine detail, and Link tenses up again when it moves more than a bit.
"No, no, Guardians can't be smart. They're autonomous things. I think... Exceeept when Zelda was controlling one! Wait a sec, how do I know that... Hey Guardian! Uh. Stop scaring people by running on the road! I had to fish a terrified little girl out of the river ten minutes ago!"
"You can't just run people off the road! And how did you take over a Guardian anyway and how can I tell you're not Ganon trying something new and evil!"
... it trembles.
Then it reaches out a limb to write again. sorry stay?
Link squints at it. She taps a thing that might be a tablet computer and squints at that. She hmms.
"...Someone's controlling this Guardian from somewhere, yeah? Wave two arms for yes, one for no."
... she should double check to make sure Ganon won't be able to find it by looking for "Modified Guardian Stalker".
can get messages?
"I don't get what you're saying. Where are you? I need to actually talk to you. And boy will I be mad if this is an elaborate ambush or something."
"I'm gonna follow your Guardian that way. Wow, if you can steal Guardians from Ganon that is a big deal. Looking forward to it."
It moves.
... Naomi can probably save hacking into her deck for later. Besides, turning autopilot back on might make her jump and start attacking it again.
It's a weird feeling, spending this much time in a matrix. She's heard of people who get addicted to hot sim because of the heightened sensation -- not something she has to deal with here. Likely. Hopefully.
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