"Hmm. I only vaguely remember that conversation, you know... I got really upset about the slavery thing right after that and kind of forgot all about it, but now that you mention it, yeah I remember. Hmmmm."

Link looks Valanda up and down, a bit more subtly. Maybe it's the wine, but... Valanda's nice. He's inquisitive and cares and is trying to do better (and pretty in that hard to describe way) and what's the harm?

...She leans forward and kisses him softly on the lips.

Well that's weird. He mirrors what she's doing and tries to pick a moment when it won't be awkward to pull away.

"So, uh, what's the mouth thing, does it mean something?"

Link laughs a little, then shakes her head. "That's a kiss. People around here do kissing for a while before escalating to sex. Sorry. Silly me for assuming you guys do the same thing I guess." She grins at him.

"Oh! Then I guess we should do that for a while."

It's weird but he's pretty immune to being grossed out by bizarre things other species do and Link wanting him is pretty great.

"Hmm. Kissing is supposed to be kind of like sex but a lot less... But you don't think it's very fun... I like it-" (short peck, Link holding on to his arms) "-But I shouldn't press it on you. Maybe we should just snuggle when sleeping instead of being on opposite sides of the bed."

"That sounds good."

Maybe she's take well to cuddling right now, that seems pretty likely.

Cuddling! On a bed! With clothes, but it's still really comfy, isn't it? Link plays with Valanda's hair idly and will probably fall asleep sooner rather than later.

So will Valanda. Such a good Link. Such a good magic door.

Link probably wakes up later than Valanda again. And with a headache, in any case. "Mornin' already?"

"Looks like it. You okay?"

"I'll be fiiiine. Jus' tired. Got a lot of exercise yesterday. Wine didn't help, at least I only had two of those... I should get up and stretch, but it's so comfy lying here with you."

"It is comfy. Do people sell ready-to-eat food here? I could go get some breakfast and bring it back to you."

"Don't think so, unless you mean whole fruits and the like. I'll get up soon, just give my the customary five more minutes of lazing, ha ha."

"Sure."

Valanda will just hold onto her until then.

Link gets up after five minutes, true to her word. "I'm gonna go see about finding breakfast, soap, and raft-building materials in that order. You probably wanna come with?"

"Of course!"

Link traipses out into Zora's Domain with her new boyfriend(?), and easily acquires breakfast. Soap is a bit harder. "I'm gonna use one of the private baths, okay? Maybe should have done it yesterday, but," shrug. "And then we can make a raft and head off! How hard could it be?"

"I can tell you what I know about oceangoing boats if that'll help..."

Who knows if any of it's the same for rafts and rivers! He sure doesn't!

"Most of that sounds about right except ours will be tiny. It doesn't need to last us very long. I want to make it in half a day. I'm pretty strong, I can handle cutting trees and stuff. And I bet unbreakable something will make it easy as cake."

"Will the weapons I've already warded work for that? Is this the kind of thing where you could lend me one and we could get it done twice as fast?"

"Maybe a wood axe would help, but it's not strictly necessary. I more meant like, unbreakable rope for the raft's logs?"

"Oh! Yeah, I can ward a rope, no problem."

"We'll figure it out. And if we can't we can just hike. I have adventure things to do later but I'm not in a huge hurry. The point is to spend time together."

"Is it safe not to be in a hurry?"

"I can't dally forever, but the biggest dangers are coming on a scale of years. I need to gather spirit orbs and heart containers to prepare for the final battle. I need to become worthy of the Master Sword. I need to find and purge the other two Divine Beasts. Things won't get much worse if I wait a month or two to do all that, I think."