"She's... Okay, so there's lots of weird magic flying around, right? Bear with me on this. She's still fighting Ganon. She did some kind of time thing. And... Gives me visions occasionally. She says... She's losing."

"Well, I suppose we should work quickly then."

"Yeah... Divine Beasts, and the Master Sword. Then I think I can fight him."

"I'll help any way I can. Well, any way that doesn't break my oath."

"What's your oath? I made a Knight's Oath."

"I've made the protector's oath. In the current situation it largely amounts to not hurting anyone who isn't hurting others and protecting those who need protecting. If there were more people from the Institute around I'd be obliged to protect them first if they needed equal protection to those not of the institute but I have latitude if they need my protection less. There's other stuff in there too, but it's mostly about coordinating efforts and anti-corruption stuff, oh and the conditions under which I can be released from my oath."

"Huh! Mine is mostly the same. I also swore to protect the well-being of the Kingdom of Hyrule, which I'm really trying to do, but hey!"

"Protecting the Institute in the abstract tends to be more the responsibility of leaders and witnesses. I used to be a witness, but out here I want to declare that I'm in interventionist more explicitly."

"So are you two - is he even still here? You two going to follow me and try to conquer the Divine Beasts?"

"I'm still here and listening. Alice is more specialized for combat though. I'll hang back unless my skills are more needed."

"Okay! I think I want to go finish my trip to Rito Village and ask around about that Divine Beast, first."

"That works for us."

"You can do that same shortcut trick, right? Follow me to the tower? Maybe put us where I was this morning?"

"Sure, I can teleport you anywhere relatively close by where relatively close by is a few kilometers. Easier to do that for places we've already been but not by too much. I could take us straight to the village but then I need to do stuff to make sure we don't run into anyone milling around."

"The foothills where you found me would work. Less likely to be occupied too."

"I can do that. You found the teleport series disconcerting last time. I'm a little better at it than zabna but not that much better. You sure you're up for it?"

"Well, I was mostly being sarcastic earlier. A moment of disorientation is worth hours of hiking."

She laughs. "Works for me. Ready? I prefer a slightly different method than Zabna so put your feet together." Alice puts her feet together in demonstration.

Link does so, bracing herself.

"Here we go." The moments of freefall are shorter but perhaps not noticeably so and then Link will find herself falling about a centimeter down onto a flat bit of the hillside. Alice lands next to her. "All set?"

"Urk. One sec."

Deep breath.

"Sure, here we go."

"Wonderful." Alice will start walking towards the village.

"Kind of wish I was born a Rito sometimes. Flying is amazing. They're not all that strong and they're kind of fragile, though."

"Flying is fun. I think other people enjoy it more than I do though at least the ways we tend to do it. Maybe the way the Rito do it would be more enjoyable than piloting or wearing air or space combat forms."

"Well, their arms are wings, and they have a little magic for it. I have to get by with gliding and using thermals, and even that's pretty sweet."