"Zephos, the god of winds. Well, one of 'em."

"Oh, I think my boat mentioned you. Something about saving me from certain plummeting death or something. Thanks."

"No problem! Old Red Lions is a bit stuffy, but a good guy to know. You know, for a beginner you've got a nice wind sense about you. I like that."

"Thanks! I'm just trying my best, here."

"Let me give you a bit of advice then. That tune you just picked up lets you control the direction of the wind. Not everywhere and not forever, and some things can just change it right back, but it can be handy. Wind can be a good thing... Or a very very bad thing. If you want an example of it being bad, just look at my brother."

"How so?"

"Well, he's awful miffed about someone who went around defacing all his shrines a while ago. See this one? Utterly smashed. It saddens me to say that he spends his time making cyclones and generally messing with people nowadays."

"Why would someone do that?"

He shrugs. "Anyway, if you encounter any cyclones at sea, be sure to scold my brother for me. And good luck!"

His cloud zips away on a sudden gust at high speed.

"Well, on the list of things I was not expecting to happen today, 'meet a wind god' was definitely up there."

The mail bird gets up from a deep bow. "Indeed not. You seem to be favored by fate, I must say."

"Guess that bodes well for my quest."

"I fear for the forces of evil, if you keep making friends with gods."

Grin.

"So what's next?"

"I'll bring you to the chieftain." He leads her back up the fallen bridge and tunnel, then up a windy path a while longer.

There's lots of spires with bird nests off thataway, and she can see a red rupee in one of them. Good place to try her last Hyoi Pear?

Yeah, let's see if it works. She pulls it out of its pocket.

That's a seagull alright. It lands on the railing and stares at the pear in her hand, making a hungry sound.

She feeds the pear to the gull.

The gull gulps it down and flies off.

Maybe she didn't do it right? She might have forgotten any special instructions the bait guy gave her. Or maybe he forgot to tell her about it. Because though she has a vague sense of where it's going she isn't really in control as advertised.

She thinks really hard about flying over to that rupee.

There's some kind of double vision - maybe it'd be better if she closed her eyes?

But once she does that, by golly she's flying. The bird snatches up that rupee in its claws no problem. There might be more interesting stuff.

Whee flying!

She has the bird circle the area to see if there's any more stuff up there.

There's a a few more rupees. There's a bunch of bomb plants growing near a boulder embedded into the mountainside, about halfway up.

She grabs the rupees. Weird place for bomb plants to be growing.

So she's not going to try blowing that boulder up?