"Why would it be because the world was broken?"

"I got used to all these things, like traveling and learning and trading stories, and started liking them, because I had to do them to ease people's pain. I couldn't be happy, if I hadn't learned to like things like that."

"Now I think maybe someone said 'liking things happens because the world is broken' to hurt you. But that may be a mistake. And it is not nice to say."

"I don't think so? Do you not feel it, when you think about what you like and why?"

Griffie thinks it over.

"I don't know why I like all the things I like. I do not know most things about me before six years ago. But I like tea, and music, and I did not need to like these for anything. I like being good at fighting, and I think that may be because the world is broken. But many things are not like that."

"Huh. Maybe you needed tea seven years ago. I think most people who live in stables remember most things that happened after they were five. And sometimes even younger than five. We could ask at the next one, if you want."

"A little before six years ago I died. But my family put me in a body I told them to make, and told me who I was last time, and I know a few things from before I died."

"People reincarnate here but we usually don't remember everything and we start as babies."

"In Suaal most people go to places when they die. Like the river that unmakes people, or nice places, or places that hurt people. But they get a bit unmade anywhere they go, probably because of the god of the river that unmakes people. So my family remakes each other with pieces from plants."

"That... is... honestly very cool. That's an idiom. It means I think it sounds interesting and fun and I'm impressed."

"It is. …in Suaal it means people who want to unmake everything want to kill my family, because we fix ourselves if we get unmade. …I don't have all the words. We broke rules gods made. They were not rules made to help people. They were made to help gods not fight."

"...That... is not what my family's priorities look like. Priorities are when you say 'this is the most important and that is a little less important'. Preventing gods from fighting is not the most important thing. Killing happy people is not the most important thing. And... I'm angry about something more complicated, about that, but I don't know how well I can explain it to you yet."

"I will learn more words."

"A god who is many people who like rules thinks stopping gods from fighting is the most important thing, and the god who made the magic river thinks that unmaking the world is the most important thing. The god who made the river does not want to help people. Some people who help him want to help people. But if everyone were happy and never hurt, the god who made the river would want to unmake the world."

"I don't think Ganon cares if he hurts people. But he and Hylia don't avoid fighting. They're fighting now. You can watch."

"Fighting as much as they can?" Griffie says, sounding genuinely surprised.

"They're fighting directly and they're fighting with all their strength but they're not fighting directly with all their strength, if that makes sense. But from any high place from Hebra to the Dueling Peaks, you can stand and watch Ganon, in person, fighting Hylia's champion, who is channeling... possibly most of Hylia's power, but I wouldn't really know how much is tied up in the sword that seals the darkness or the statues. They don't have rules where they waste their time screwing with mortals for no reason instead."

"You say the gods are fighting with all their strength, but … the peaks do not move, and morning is after night, and today is after yesterday. And up is not down. Do Hylia and Ganon not have very much strength?"

"There are stories I trust a lot less than things you have already said you think are mistakes. They say Ganon could make morning not come. But I don't see why Ganon would do that instead of fighting Hylia. I do know the sky looks different if you look at it from Hyrule Castle, and it looks different during the blood moons, too. One of the mountains was damaged a hundred years ago. But it's true, up is not down. And...

"...and we have stories from a long time ago, and they're not very trustworthy, but... it wouldn't shock me if Ganon and Hylia were tearing each other apart a little more every time this happens."

"One of the mountains was damaged a hundred years ago. One of the mountains was damaged. The god who is many people who like rules would want to be here very very much, I think."

"Maybe they would but I don't think we'd like having them."

“I do not like them either.”

"Do you think they might find this place? Can we keep them away?"

“I think they will not come here soon unless I tell them to, and if I tell them they will try to not do things I don’t want with what they know from me.”

"Hm. Anyway."

"We seem to want more words. …want to help me learn to say songs that are not about unmaking or not-unmaking? There's one about an animal that says" and ey makes a ribbit. "Well, the one I know is about people that say" ey makes a noise that sounds like a badly distorted ribbit "but I do not think you know the word for that. So the animal word?"