"I've never seen anything that even might have been a Lizalfos egg, or a baby bokoblin, or anything like that."

She successfully beaches the raft. "Right! We could do this the hard way, but instead I think I'll show off some Sheikah magic."

"They have different magic than Hylians?"

"Old Sheikah stuff can do all sorts of things that our magic-crafters can't replicate anymore. This one is called stasis."

She points the Slate at the raft and it - freezes in place with a clanging noise, holding a faintly yellow sheen. Then she draws her sword and repeatedly hits it!

The raft goes flying when the magic releases, making a loud noise as it hits the dirt about twenty feet away. "Take a while, doing it this way, but it's indestructible, right? And it's easier and more fun!"

He laughs. "Can I hit it too?"

"Sure! Just be careful of which way it's gonna fly, it'll mess you up good if it hits you. I use this on boulders against monsters sometimes."

He errs on the side of sending it a little further inland, on the theory that if it lands on the wrong patch of land the land won't carry it to an even wronger place.

"How far are we carrying it?"

"About a quarter mile. There's a patch where it gets really narrow and rapid and then it's smooth again after. Saw it on my hike up."

They keep trading off hits, though the Stasis takes about ten seconds to recharge every time she uses it.

"Did the magic come with instructions or did you figure out you could use it for this on your own?"

"Figured it out, mostly. I only have - four? Maybe five - powerful Sheikah abilities."

She explains the force-bombs, sensor, camera (and takes a photo of Val!), and Cryonis as they batter the raft down to the next landing.

The rest of the day is much the same - relaxing, chatting, and floating down the river. Link takes out an Octorok with casual ease at one point.

They get to Link's promised nice, dry rock overhang just before sunset, when yellow-orange light is still spilling into the top of the cliffs even if it no longer reaches the bottom.

"Ahhh. Nice day, eh? Now we just need to set up the tent. Maybe a fire, but I'd just as soon skip it - I have food saved, and it's not cold weather."

"Should we sleep in shifts tonight, in case of monsters?"

"Shouldn't be necessary. Monsters aren't exactly quiet. But if it makes you feel safer we could."

"I don't know how wary we need to be here. I could also just make our tent stronger than a wall of diamond and impossible to move."

"You can undo that, right? Or put it on a timer? If so, good plan."

"I can undo it if I'm conscious. Or I can make it so it'll stop as soon as I stop concentrating but that seems less useful for sleeping."

"As long as you can undo it so we don't get trapped and I leave an air gap it'll be fine."

Link appears a large bag from the Sheikah Slate and starts rummaging through it. Spare clothes - bar of soap - paper-wrapped biscuits - oops, something fell out. Link doesn't notice.

"What're those?" he asks, pointing at the biscuits. "Oh, you dropped something."

"Oh, they're just-" She picks up the dropped item - that vibrating toothbrush Valanda sold her - and blushes deeply, almost tomato-red. "Eheheh..."

Well now he's really curious what they are! But prying would be mean. How about a nice change of subject, that sounds like it'll put Link at ease. "Has the toothbrush been working well for you?"

"...Well if I wanna kiss you I can talk about this. Uh. Ahem. Surprisingly, yes! I was... Surprised." (Still blushing.)

"Are you okay?"

"Yes, I'm fine! Perfectly fine. Just kind of embarrassed about you... Seeing it. Sex taboos, you know."

"Oh, that might've been a bad choice of distraction, I guess, you don't seem any more comfortable than when I asked you about those other things. Sorry."

"Nooo. The biscuits are fine. They're just food. I was embarrassed about the- The toothbrush the whole time." She laughs. "Kind of silly, if I think about it."

"Oh! In that case you won't mind if I ask what biscuits are?"

Link seems eager and almost relieved to explain in detail exactly what biscuits are, what is tasty with them, and how they're made! A great change of subject!