"Feel like I should be saying something about sovereignty about now. But that'd be kind of a joke, 'Hyrule' doesn't really exist as a state with central authority for now."

"We'll stay away from places where we're not wanted. We just try to help where we can. Whatever happens we're not going to try to assert authority over your people or any of the peoples of this world."

"Mm. Hey, why don't you take a grand tour? The rest of the important towns."

"That's something I should do. I'm not in a hurry though."

"Well, let me make you a little map. The Castle Town used to be really pretty but it's a Guardian-infested wasteland now, more's the pity. Rito Town you saw earlier. There's Gerudo Town - uh, women only there, you can still go to the trading post though - Zora's Domain, Hateno Town, the Lurelin tribe, Kakariko Village, Goron City. Oh, and Tarrey Town. Maybe the Korok forest counts but koroks are a bit strange. Those are all the most interesting ones - there's little villages and outposts here and there."

"I could rearrange my body, my partner prefers a female body so I can use her body template or wake her up and let her use it."

"Of course you can do that..."

"My partner is mostly here in case we run into anyone equivtech. She's much better at fighting than I am and much better at making quick decisions, she has a tendency to be extremely lethal though. Back home anyone serious enough to need her to fight them would have backups so that isn't a disadvantage. Out here I try not to resort to that."

"Think she'd want to fight Ganon for me?"

The voice which answers is not Zahn's it's female and it has a bit of an edge and more than a hint of mischief to it. "I could be persuaded. I'm always up for a good fight, not sure how useful I'd be with such a small load out against anyone really dangerous though."

Huh! "Maybe we can get you a version of that Guardian cannon. Working together to kill that one was easy, and Purah's good with Sheikah tech. With enough parts..."

"I always love to play with new weapons. I wouldn't have much business being an explorer if I didn't like new things."

Whoom. A stylized lightning-themed wand appears in her hand. "Try this one! No idea how to tell how many charges it has left, but it's cool."

"If I'm going to play I should really change our template. You might want to look away if you're easily disturbed." Alice waits a moment then if Link is still watching she'll see their skin ripple changing color slightly and distorting to reshape itself to a different body shape and different facial features. "There that's better."

She's not squeamish, but that was weird. "Okay, so, you swing it and flick your wrist at the right moment to use it. It's a lot less strenuous to use than a bow, but the... Thingy, doesn't move very fast."

Alice does as instructed, aiming at a nearby boulder.

A small ball of what looks like coherent lightning flies out at maybe 15 km/hr.

It hits the ground near the boulder and explodes with a loud crackle.

"Hm, that is pretty slow, and I think I flicked just a bit late. If this has limited and unknown ammo I think I can make do without other practice fires."

"I'm not especially attached to it, and I can get more, if you want to try anyway. It just occurred to me when you said 'interesting weapons'. It usually doesn't kill things either - knocks them down real good though."

"Well, Zabna gets annoyed if I kill people so maybe it would be good to branch out. Although, if we're fighting serious bobble immune opponents I'm not sure how to actually do that. Do you have any other good weapons to try out?"

"Monsters aren't people. Guardians aren't even as smart as cats, just really big and dangerous. And, eh, not really any others on the right side of expendable-versus-interesting."

"You have special arrows, it might be good to practice shooting normal arrows with your bows if you have enough extras assuming the weight isn't totally different."

"Oh, sure. Crappy bow like most of the ones you'll find, or an actually good bow?"

"Do they aim differently?"

"Uh, not really? The bad one has sucky draw and deforms a lot, you have to take that into account. Oh, and it doesn't have an arrow notch. I guess that counts. Do you know how to use a bow?"