"We might have as many plants as you at home, there's just no reason I'd know as much about what we have that I can eat as you do about what Hyrule has that you can eat. The Rito probably can't carry enough cargo to mimic what we've got but maybe Vah Medoh can. How much can the flying Guardians carry?"

"...No idea. Guardians themselves are pretty heavy? Probably could carry two or three people without much trouble, but that's guessing."

"Can you take the Guardians back like you're doing to the Divine Beasts?"

"Nope! Have to kill 'em."

"Then I guess you can't recruit ten and bring mass transit to Hyrule. Maybe later we'll be able to figure out how the Sheikah made them fly and do that."

"Well, Purah might know. She studies Guardians, among other stuff."

"Even if she doesn't, we can read about it later. I guess flight is as good a starting point as any. Safe travel is more important than it probably sounds."

"Oh, I know that. Keeping the roads clear and escorting folks came before exterminating monsters, back in my guard days."

"That's a really good thing you did. How many people were there doing that back then?"

"The Hyrule Volunteer Guard Corps was two thousand strong at its peak!"

"Volunteer? How did you afford weapons and food if you were working for free?"

"Oh, you do get paid some. It's just- you make a commitment when you join, and it's separate from the army and the Royal Guard both, not even strictly answering to the King, so it needed a different name."

"Oh, that makes sense. Did the government fund it out of tax revenues?"

"Don't remember." Nom.

"Guess we just have to kill Ganon so I can ask Zelda. ...I think I like this weird flavor."

"Horray, we've discovered another food you like! Spicy things, noted. Say, how do your world's flights work anyway?"

"...I'm thinking about what Impa said. Maybe I should wait and tell you how it's done in Milliways. The short answer is magic."

"Well, if Ganon can spy on us wherever we are, I think we have bigger problems than him figuring out how to fly. He already makes flying monsters and uses flying Guardians."

"Well, given your optimism, sure. Force mages can fly alone, we don't have too many people in the air for that at once, but that's less safe and less comfortable. Mostly they have crews of two or more force mages. They can sort of lift things with their minds, so they lift these, you could call them buildings but they're much more aerodynamic and, uh, portable than the usual building. They sell space to people or cargo and they leave at fixed times from airports in different cities and people can rent space on a flight, you pay per pound times miles traveled. Usually they have different compartments at different temperatures so they can keep some things frozen, like if you were transporting a lot of meat and didn't have a defense mage on hand. Most flights start or end in the capital but I think that only works because the whole continent isn't very big."

"Prices are always by weight? So you're just out of luck if you're a really big and heavy person?"

"Yeah, it does mean some species pay less than others to travel."

"Oh well."

The finish the meal. The bill is a bit higher than buying the ingredients would have been, but not absurd.

He pays.

"Where to next?"

"Up to the lab, I guess. Dye shop is neat but we don't actually need to visit."

"To the lab! ...Hey, what's that fire for?"