"The part of a person that separates you from an animal and isn't your mind... But sorta has your mind attached to it? I'm not up on theology, but I'm pretty sure souls are that."

"Oh, that! I'm glad you saved Mipha's from Ganon. While you were there did you think of anything else that could've been warded to make things safer or easier?"

"Well, I decided I really do want warded armor, and maybe a warded me if it won't interfere with, like, normal body things."

"There are wards that just make it impossible to injure someone but I don't know how to cast them, I'll have to put something together from scratch and it'll be a little kludgey. Unbreakable bones will be the easiest thing, then maybe something for blood loss. Do you have a book about Hylian anatomy somewhere for me to read first so I don't run into any surprises while I'm working?"

"No, I don't know any books like that. I'm pretty nervous about it actually. I only have the one body, you know? Maybe I should pray to Goddess Hylia and see if she thinks it would be dangerous..."

"I can put together some proposals and have her look through them if it's something she'd know about. If I can check with her then I might as well draft some ambitious possibilities... I can run a ward for unbreakable bones by her right now, I could have a first draft of a ward against bleeding by tomorrow, but I think in a few weeks I can run some more comprehensive ideas by her. What kinds of injuries are you most concerned about?"

"I don't really have conversations with Hylia. I think she's extremely busy, probably. We'll see if she responds to my prayer. Since I have my shield and if you can make some armor the same, heat, concussive force like explosions, and blunt force are the biggest remaining concerns."

"Heat's simple, I know how to do temperature wards safely on living things already, I can have you immune to flame before the party's over if you want. Otherwise... I can theoretically ward you against the rest, the problem is just that you're very squishy and dynamic and it would be counterproductive if I turned you into an unbreakable statue."

"Yeah, that'd be... Something. Heat protection is good enough. I'll still be able to feel warmth, it's just fire would be less? I have a few Heart Containers, they're a blessing from Hylia, they make me tougher without any drawbacks I've noticed, they'll have to do."

"I can make you so you can't get hotter or colder than whatever range I decide on. It's safer to have kind of a broad range, you'd get warmer or cooler if you were out in the snow or by a fire, there'd just be a limit on it."

"That sounds really handy! I have magic clothes for dealing with fire and cold, but if I can wear something else and not worry about it it'd help sometimes. Thanks! I guess you want to get paid for it, huh? How much?"

"You've helped me a lot in ways I haven't been paying for, that I'd have to pay for at home, I'll just cast it for you and we'll call that even."

"Sweet! I'm pretty sure that makes us officially friends, even, trading favors like that."

"Oh, so that's what friends are! I think maybe that means I had one once, or is not having agreed on what you'll do for each other at the beginning an important part of it?"

"No, that's not actually what friends are. I was being sarcastic. Friends are... People who want to spend time with each other, not because it's a good deal or they have to, but because it's fun. Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. I have fun talking to you."

"I have fun talking to you too. I would visit a post-apocalyptic monster world just to spend more time with you!"

"And you did, in fact, do that. I can't even object to 'post apocalyptic', really, though it kind of stings. We haven't actually spent much time together yet, though."

"Unless the next door I open goes to Milliways we'll have more time now that you're done with Vah Ruta. ...So, uh, what do friends do together?"

"Oh, talk about interesting things, watch plays or go sightseeing together, eat together, sparring, whatever we both think is fun really."

"Want to go sightseeing after... maybe tomorrow after you've rested some?"

"Definitely! I mean, the party's fun, but it's also almost as exhausting as climbing around inside Vah Ruta was... We could raft down the river, maybe. It'll be much easier than hiking up was, I bet. There's a couple ways to go after that depending on what you want to end up seeing."

"I'll trust that you know what's worth seeing. And safe. Safe-ish. How bad will the roads be?"

"How bad as in, how monstery? Or how hard to travel on? Most of them are dirt roads."

"So they'll be all muddy now and we can't fly, great. How monstery?"

"Most roads do an okay job at staying minimally muddy! The hike up here was not fun, though, you're right. I was thinking we raft down the river. Monsters... We'll probably see a few even if I avoid dangerous areas. But I know where the weakest monsters tend to go and we can stick to those places, and I already cleared out a lot of the ones along the river. I can go ahead and handle them if we run into any. I'll buy you time to run in the unlikely event we find one I can't kill easily."