O visitor, says a voice in his head, You have suffered much and are conflicted. But you are good at heart. Alas, my strength must be reserved while Ganon yet threatens the world... I cannot grant you power.

Oh! Oh, that's alarming. Okay.

He thanks her for her answer.

He takes a last long look at Hyrule and walks back inside. "She says she's too busy with Ganon to help," he tells Link.

Sigh. "I was afraid that would be the answer. Ganon really is terrible... I probably shouldn't linger in here for too long, I'll go soft and won't be able to beat him when the time comes..."

"Another hug before you go?"

"Oh, I'm not leaving right now! I just shouldn't stay here for more than another day or two, that's all."

Hug! Smiling hug. "Not gonna leave you to be alone again quite yet, nah. Maybe you should get some of my elixirs. They do a bunch of useful stuff. A lot of them are kind of defense-magey but some aren't."

Hugs are so nice.

"What do the elixirs do and what do you want for them? And will you have enough to win your war even if you sell me some?"

"I can always make more. You won't be taking anything irreplaceable. Elixirs that defense mage doesn't already cover... Better at attacking, stamina restore, speed boost, stealth boost. Cost depends on the elixir? I'll give you a few of the weak ones for free, really really good ones that last for a whole day can sell for a hundred rupees or more."

"When you restore stamina, what does that do? If I run ten miles and can't go any farther and I take it, can I run another ten miles? What does a stealth boost elixir do?"

"Well, some stamina elixirs are better than others, but broadly yes. Stealth boost mostly makes you really really quiet when moving around, you don't crunch leaves or anything."

Link goes back over toward bar. "Oh hey you said something about toothbrushes earlier but I was kind of upset at the time?"

"They vibrate! They have bristles on one end but you can remove the bristle part and put something else there if you want. I'm planning to just sell the lot of them to someone who can make the right sort of attachment in my world but I can sell you one if you want. But how does a stealth elixir keep you from crunching leaves? Does it make you lighter? Does it let the leaves crunch but keep anyone from hearing the sound? Does it work against scrying or only in person?"

"But why is vibrating a sex thing it, uh, sounded like they were related to sex somehow?" Pause. She mutters under her breath, "Weird to be talking about this..."

"Oh, right. Stealth elixirs it's more like... It makes you able to move in such a way that you don't crunch leaves. You still make some noise, just less. I can give you one and let you walk around observing the effects if you want."

"Some people like vibrating things against their genitals," he says with a shrug. He's not even sure what kind she has, it's possible she hasn't actually compared hers to humans or that she wasn't talking about that when she said Hylians were similar to humans. There are clearly some physical differences, anyway. "That might not be a thing for Hylians, if it's not something Hylians do then it's probably not something you'll like. So, stealth elixirs, yes, I want to try one, if they work like you say I want, um, how many do you have? What's the shelf life?"

"It's strange enough I wouldn't be surprised if I'd never heard of it even if it was. Anyway. I have half a dozen? And I could whip up about forty of them before too long with the ingredients I have. I'm not actually sure about the shelf life. I store them in the Slate's inventory. Maybe Bar has a book about elixirs."

He asks Bar for a book that mentions the shelf life of stealth elixirs from Hyrule. "I need to know the shelf life before I decide how many I want. What ingredients do you use to make them?"

"Certain flowers, certain species of insects and small critters like frogs and snails native to Hyrule. Oh, and monster parts. The monster parts are important, they're full of magic."

That seems like a really weird way for magic to work. He skims the book for relevant-looking headings, finds one, reads a bit.

"I think I just want a few, maybe four or five. What makes the monster parts magic?"

"...Monsters are magic? They have a tiny tiny part of Ganon's power in them, just like Hylia's chosen and blessed artifacts like the Hero's Sword have part of Hylia's power. I think."

"And that continues even after the monster is dead? Uh, if someone somehow destroyed one of the weapons I enchanted for you, that would just break the enchantment, you couldn't somehow get defense magic out of the ruined pieces. Not that that's likely to come up."

"Maybe Hyrule's magic is more sticky or something."

"Sounds like it. Hey, it's been great talking to you but I think if I do nothing else but read all the books I need to while I'm here and sleep when I feel like it I'll end up close enough to exactly a day past when I came in that I won't feel tired too soon or something when I get home. Anything else I can do for you before that?"

With a slight blush, "...Iiiii want one of those toothbrushes. I'm curious. And I can always, uh, actually clean my teeth if it doesn't work that way. Still want a few stealth elixirs?"

"Of course!" He gets a toothbrush out of the pile of stuff from Tileworld. "How many elixirs is a toothbrush worth to you?"

"I was gonna give you a bunch anyway, so I'll give you... Five mediumish ones? That's what I have already made. Should last ten hours or so each I think."

"Sure, that works." Valanda hands over the toothbrush.

And Link produces elixirs from thin air. "I think I'll probably go now. It was nice to meet you and good luck with everything!"

And out she goes.