"Let's ask bar!"

She does so.

"...Bar says almost always yes, unless you don't intend to ever come back or something extra weird is going on."

"Sure, I'll come! Should I buy blankets or nonperishable food or something from Bar first? Do you want to go immediately? It's not long till I'd normally want to sleep, what time is it in Hyrule now?" 

"Maybe get a raincoat. Unless the rain doesn't bother you. I have a tent and there's stables all over, but if we have to make camp an extra blanket could be comfy. Food, you don't need to but may as well be prepared? Also I have to deal with the Divine Beast, but if I can do that I can probably give you a tour. Hyrule's actually a beautiful place, most of it. And maybe it will help you learn what I mean about morals, talking to Zora and Hylians. Dunno if you still need that but it can't hurt?"

"That still sounds useful. I'll pack what you said, thanks."

He gets whatever raincoat and boots Bar recommends, a bag of trail mix, a furry blanket, a waterproof backpack. He changes all his remaining money into rupees, packs everything, puts on the raincoat and the backpack and the boots. Plastic feels so weird, but he trusts Bar that it's waterproof.

"I'm glad you want to visit! I honestly thought you wouldn't. You've got stuff to do in your world just like me after all. Shall we be off, then?"

She opens the door.

Valanda steps cautiously through the door, firmly intending to come back to the moment he left from. Zora's Domain is strange and hard to understand. After a while he guesses that there are parts of it that only exist to be pretty. He wonders if the glowing pillars are technology or magic.

He realizes too late that he has no idea whether he'll be able to understand Link without the Milliways translation and that he doesn't know anything about local law and could break it by accident. He looks around but he doesn't immediately try to go anywhere or do anything, not when he doesn't know what will get him killed.

"Well, welcome to Zora's Domain! I know it looks a little cold, what with all the blue, but I think it's a nice place. We're on a lower level right now, keeps the rain off. Want to go up top?"

...Yeah, the - character - of the translation is a little different now. Less like Link is speaking in her native language, and more like Valanda can somehow understand her anyway.

Oh, this is a much nicer sort of magic translation!

"I'd love to. Are there any things I should do or avoid doing while I'm here?"

"Uhh... The Zora are mostly relaxed about things? Some of them don't like me much because of the whole mess with Ganon, though. Don't attack anybody?"

"I can avoid attacking anyone. Is there someone I should talk to about doing magic for the Zora while I'm here?"

"We should probably see the king and Prince Sidon and that grumpy high priest guy about that. I was planning on sleeping and then going up to the mountain up there and getting some shock arrows from the Lynel up there. They say I'll need those to get into the Divine Beast. I bet King Dorephan will be interested to see you, though."

"Oh, it's convenient that you're going to sleep soon, then we're on the same schedule! I'll see the king whenever you think it would be a good idea, but I'd prefer to have you there, you seem more likely to know what might be accidentally rude or threatening."

"I suppose so. Let's go have a look around and if the throne room looks empty we'll see if he's there. They make those lights with luminous stone," she gestures at one. "It's really cool stuff. Rare and expensive, too. And they make it look so beautiful. Zora's Domain has been here a long time."

"Oh, is that natural? We could build someplace like this at home if we wanted, but an illusion mage would have to personally enchant all the glowing parts. It really is beautiful, I've never seen anything like it. Are other places in Hyrule like this?"

"Luminous stone is natural, yeah. Rare, though! And expensive 'cause of it. Uh, you saw Hebra last time I opened the door for you. Most places are like that. Beautiful wilderness, not beautiful city. I think Zora's Domain is probably the prettiest built place in all of Hyrule. Even if that's only because a lot of the rest of Hyrule is kind of destroyed..." Sigh.

They're going up a long ramp that slowly reveals more of the cool grandeur of Zora's Domain, with elaborate carvings and long, sloping ramps, all of it shimmering slightly in the rain.

"And this is the central plaza, with the shrine, the throne room, and... The statue honoring the fallen Zora champion. Mipha." (Sigh.) "I knew her..."

"Did Ganon kill her?"

"Yeah. Sent a sort of - shade - a fragment of himself. It killed her and took over the Divine Beast. That's what I'm gonna go kill. Already did it to one of them over in Rito Village."

...Maybe coming to the world where Ganon can possess people was a bad idea, but it's too late to back down now.

"That's terrible. I'll do whatever I can to help you kill him."

"I appreciate it. He needs killing. I don't think we're gonna kill him, though. Sealing him away is enough. Once I get into the Divine Beast, I just need to get to all the control consoles and tap them with the Slate... It's like the master key to all Sheikah tech. So I don't need to figure out how to hack an ancient superweapon today. Of course, I'll have to kill an aspect of Ganon to do that."

"Control consoles? Is the Divine Beast a robot? Was it made for war?" Valanda is so out of his depth. His world left war behind and now if there are any tricks for using defense magic offensively he doesn't know them. Not that he regrets growing up in a peaceful world.

"I think yes. At least to an extent. Don't worry, I'll handle all the fighty bits. I'm good at that." Link pats Valanda on the shoulder casually.

Link touching him is always nice.

"It seems like it'd be dangerous even if you know what you're doing, but I'm glad you're good at it. How did you learn?"

"I'm... Not actually sure. Lots of practice, I think? Maybe there used to be a knight school."

"There must be some kind of efficiency gain from having schools where lots of students share a teacher. It's not preferred at home, people learn at different speeds and are different ages and a small enough settlement might not have two of the same kind of mage learning the basics at the same time."

"I guess you have to centralize it some? I remember a lot of folks do apprenticeships and mostly schools are for little kids, making sure they can add and read and write and know, like, important survival stuff like how to tell monsters apart and not to stand near metal things during a lightning storm."