"Oh, okay. Sheikah tech is nice, maybe they published books about it that Milliways can sell us."

"...Ooh! Good idea! It's a dead language now, but that won't stop Princess Zelda."

"Or we could copy it out while we're in Milliways and can read it. I think that should work."

"See, you're not immune to good ideas either!"

"Of course I'm not. We'll do your copy first, I have more to gain from staying in Milliways for a while."

"You taking notes for what all you have to look up once we find Milliways?"

They head for the inn.

"...hadn't thought to."

It will definitely be a great inn. He listens on the way in case being nearby makes it obvious whether they've done anything about sound.

The inn is not particularly busy.

It turns out that the soundproofing isn't great either, unfortunately.

Hylians have some unique priorities but fine.

"Let's see how the room looks."

"Sure."

It's only about a dozen feet wide and deep, and the walls are just wood slats, but it has a small table and a chair and an actually quite nice almost-double bed with a bunch of pillows and blankets - and a lock on the door.

Such incredibly backwards priorities. At least the door locks.

"Wow, it's big! If I were an illusion mage I'd just move in and live here forever."

"Yeah, it's a nice room. Why would you need to be an illusion mage?"

"Then I could soundproof it myself."

It's probably a good thing it's got that flaw, otherwise he'd be tempted to stay in Hyrule forever.

"Aha. Well... Better than sleeping in a tent, in my opinion. Let's just wash up and get an early start tomorrow, yeah?"

"Yeah, let's."

They have to be a bit closer to share the bed. It's not that big. Link offers to rent a second room for Val.

"Only if you want, I'm not nearly as bothered sharing a room with you as having strangers listening to me."

"May as well skip it then. At least we're probably going to be pretty quiet when we sleep?"

"It's not like we'll be telling secrets in our sleep anyway."

People will be able to hear them breathe but if he complains he'll just wreck the mood and it won't do any good because it's not like there's a nice soundproof room next door.

They sleep, slightly cuddled up. Link sleeps very still and deeply, slight smile on her face, just like before.

The next morning Link suggests arranging for Val to meet Lady Impa. She was one of Princess Zelda's advisors, back before the Calamity! Very old, though.

Might as well get it over with. Maybe it'll go really well and she'll teach him things in exchange for some wards.

Lady Impa is very old. She also seems to be in charge of the village. Her very nervous-looking tends to her. 

Link stands back when she meets Valanda.

"So this is the friend from a different world you spoke of, Link? Hmm... From what I have heard it is a very different world indeed..."

"Things do seem very different here."

"Yes. We have gods, monsters - morals. I think your world is very dangerous, and your presence here may be unexpectedly dangerous as well, though not for the reasons you might expect. If there were a more direct method of transit than the... Interdimensional bar... I would have to see about doing something about it. But there is not."

"I'd be interested to know why you think it might be dangerous and why you think I think it might be dangerous."