I decided to leave a week from today, so I would have some time to prepare. I decided to head first for the Great Plateau, as I heard that there is some good areas for shelter, as well as the fact that it doesn't have too many monsters and it has some pretty good food opportunities.
I start packing my bags, as I am unsure whether I will ever return. I am starting to edge toward no, I won't return. I have spent 16 years doing absolutely nothing productive, and I don't want to stay any longer than I have to. I pack my tunics, my armor, and my special armor.
My special armor helps to keep me warm, can enable me to swim up waterfalls, and can keep me cool. Mind you, these are all different armor sets. That night, I stop at Kilton's Fang and Bone and purchase a bag to keep my stuff in, as well as a sheath for my bow, arrows, and sword.
They are supposedly made to be lightweight, no matter how much I stuffed in there. The next morning, I made a hammock, as I wouldn't be able to travel that fast and probably wouldn't make it to an inn each night. We would cross the monster problem bridge when we came to it….probably better to hang the hammock high in a tree…anyways!
After I secured the hammock, I did one of the most vital things for my trip: I started cooking. I had saved my rupees for years for absolutely no reason, other than I never had to use them. I caught my own food and wove my own simple tunics on a loom. I packed all of the food that I had made in a pouch purchased from Kilton that would keep all food at its respective temperature and would prevent it from going stale or rotten.
On the second to last day, I caught a horse. I named her Naydra, after one of the dragons I had studied. On the last day, my day off again, I left before anyone got up and spent a few hours monster-hunting. Then I spent another couple of hours getting more food and stocking up on arrows. I got another spear and took Naydra out of the stable and rode off silently bidding Lurelin Village goodbye, hopefully forever.
It was about two hours before dusk that I had left, stupid me. I should have left earlier. I only get to the top of a mountain overlooking Lurelin and I harness Naydra at the point where she cannot climb. There are no monsters, including stal-monsters…at least, not anymore. The mountain has a heart shaped pond, and a Gerudo lady and a Hylian man are standing there. I make camp and lay down.
The next morning, I pack up my stuff and mount Naydra. I ride all day, stopping only for brief amounts of time to eat something or give Naydra a rest. When the sky is turning orange and purple, signaling dusk, I arrive in Necluda's Stable. Here, I pay the 20 rupees for a regular bed, and as soon as I lay down on it, I am asleep.
The next morning, there is a man with cerulean eyes and dirty blond hair sleeping in the bed next to me. I don't know why it mattered, and I supposed it didn't. He just looked like someone I knew, although I didn't know who. There is no one in the village who looked like that. I go out to the cookpot and make bird eggs and rice and eat it all. The eggs are golden and delicious and the rice is pure white and buttery.
Once again, I mount Naydra and ride off, but not before harvesting the mushrooms and other food, weapon, animal, and plant resources around the stable. Soon, the land around me hints that I've started heading into Lanayru. There are no stables here, much to my frustration.
After I check my map about eight hundred times, trying to find a stable, I give up and find a rotted out log from a giant tree that has no holes or rotted out places on the 'roof'. I bar the entrance and the exit with rocks and tree branches so that no monsters can get in. I build a fire aand review the map. I'm in the area near Zora's Domain, so I decide to get there and hopefully be able to relax for a little while.
The next morning, it's raining heavily, with no signs of letting up. I don't want to have to leave Naydra as she is smart and loyal, and also because she's good company but I am afraid that I will have to. I don't want her to get hurt or die at the hands of a slippery cliff or monsters. I can go to a stable and get her back though, so I'm not too worried.
I make the final decision while eating breakfast. It is too dangerous on the slippery rocks for Naydra, so I will leave her behind. I leave her plenty of apples though, so she won't go hungry. I kiss her on her muzzle. "Stay strong Naydra. You're the best horse ever. I'm sorry I have to leave you, but it is for your own good." I whisper parting words to Naydra, who whickers softly back to show she understood.
I hoist my supplies onto my back and continue walking. Some way through, I encounter an ugly beast that I am just thankful it is not a Lynel. It is a Hinox though, which sucks, but it should be easy to kill. I shoot in a shock arrow to wake it up, and I just keep shooting. I have several thousand shock arrows, and same for the rest of my arrows, as I learned to make them myself and because I bought out the village's supply daily. By the time it is able to get up without me electrocuting it, it is at a quarter health. I shoot more shock arrows in, as any other arrow will be useless in this dang rain, and it dies after three arrows. It explodes in a puff of black and dark purple calamity dust.
It drops several roasted bass, which is good, because it ensures that I won't have to go hunting for a couple of days, and hopefully by then I will be in Zora territory. It also drops several Hinox toenails, a new soldier's broadsword, a soldier's claymore, a soldier's bow, some palm fruits, and some hinox guts. If I get this good of a haul with every Hinox, then I could spend my life as a Hinox fighter and live in luxury.
I continue walking, and somehow I end up walking up the side of a mountain. Somewhere in the 'how to get to Zora's Domain, I think I might have taken a wrong turn… A camp of Lizalfolos are ahead, so I defeat them, one of them going up a tree and jumping down on me, but at last, every Lizalfolos is gone. And side note: Wow, I'm really rocking it with the dramatics. It wasn't that horrible that 'at last. They're all gone.' I continue walking up the mountain.
It is only drizzling ahead. I start to notice shock arrows embedded in trees, and I begin mindlessly collecting them. Soon, a passage from one of the lessons I learned when I was younger came back into my mind. Shock arrows in trees sure sign of a Lynel.