"Put it on the back burner, then. But it'll important once we come up with a final plan!"

"What's wrong with the old plan?"

"It's impermanent and too risky, especially down a Divine Beast!"

"The Princess believes it can work."

"Zelda doesn't know about Cam!"

"OFF TOPIC!"

"...Right, yes, let's focus. We called this meeting for a reason. Does anyone have anything to say or add to the agenda before we start? Important revelations? Refreshment requests?"

"I can probably find a way to make large messages in the sky that do not broadcast the conversation to all of Hyrule by for instance making two layers of cloud, or one layer and then a drone trailing a banner above it."

"Maybe! We don't know how exactly the Princess perceives things, so we would have to experiment. And it's not strictly true that we don't want all of Hyrule to see our communications, even if it's probably true for a lot of different reasons."

Nod nod. He has nothing else to put on the agenda.

Link pulls over a stool and starts disassembling and cleaning his absurdly large spiked bludgeon.

"O...kay! So, basically... you know what, Robbie, you do it. You can deliver with more pizzazz."

He clears his throat.

"The Divine Beasts have been SLOWLY DRAINING ALL THE MAGIC out of Hyrule for ten thousand years, and it got A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE after we woke them up!"

He waits for a response.

Link pauses for a second, and continues taking apart his bludgeon.

"What other things is the magic useful for?"

"Just to set the record straight, 'magic' isn't a specific thing, really, just a layman's expression bundling together all kinds of energies and phenomena outside the material plane. But to answer your question, everything!

"It's a common misconception that the magic is only about mystic powers like Zora healing or shadow ninjutsu, or magical creatures like monsters and fairies and spirits. But all life has a little 'magic' in it, in the physical sense. Whenever you eat a meal that warms you up or gives you strength, it's because of the biological magic in the ingredients! Even organisms without overt magic effects rely on 'magical' energies a little to grow and develop correctly. If you try planting wheat in a planar isolation chamber, even if you give it plenty of water and sunlight, it'll come out unusually withered, or just die."

"Oh that's why your trees are so stupid fast."

"That's not... that..."

Purah pauses.

"Do your plants not... does Hell not have extraordinary biology? Do you have any of the things I just described where you come from?"

"Not... the way I suspect you mean them. A meal can warm a normal mortal up if it's hot as in temperature as in the molecules in it are jittering fast, or even if it's spicy and tricking some of my feedback mechanisms into thinking it's hot, and it can give strength in the sense that you can... use the protein in it to build muscle, use the blood sugar to not be shaky or whatever..."

"Wow. Food also does that, but—if you eat chilli, you get warmer—as in your blood acquired a significant, measurable exothermic effect—and when you eat mighty food you physically lift more for a duration... have you eaten anything from here yet? I wonder if it's because you can only create matter that your ecology is like that... but it can't explain all of it! Life would still adapt!"

"When I make ecological remarks I'm generally talking about the nonmagical ecology of the planet where I was born, Earth, before I had these powers. The ecology in my world where I live now is barely an ecology because it's so young and managed and takes so much inspiration from the Earth one. I haven't eaten anything here yet."

"...I have so many questions, but this is getting—"

"Link! Do you still carry around those snack bars everywhere—"

"—getting off topic, thank you. Cam, does the description of magic make sense to you or is there still a gap we need to address not obvious to me?"

"This description of magic largely makes sense to me."