003 ⚘ journal entry

[skyglider]

Sender: Link
To: Everyone
Subject: Hello.

[The Story Eater has been vanquished and most of the elements it summoned have disappeared. But caches of Malice that appeared during the event have stubbornly remained around Reverein. Link isn't much of a journal post person, but he decides to say something anyway.

First, an imprint of a picture appears, along with an arrow pointing directly at it and a big, bold X.]

Don't touch the purple stuff.

[... That's it, that's the post.]

Comments

[multidisciplinary]

[ THAT'S BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T USE ENOUGH WORDS. ]

I will assist as well, if I can.

But it does make me wonder: why has it not faded away? The other nightmares conjured by the Story Eater have all disappeared.

[skyglider]

[WORDS ARE HARD]

Thank you.
... I'm concerned about that, too, but I don't have an answer.

[multidisciplinary]

[ NOT REALLY??? ]

Neither do I.

I am inclined to try to investigate it, but...

[ She doesn't want to. ]

[skyglider]

How?

[I mean, he's absolutely willing to do whatever gross parts need to get done, he just has no idea how one would investigate this.]

[multidisciplinary]

I'm not sure.

[ It being Malice is making Zelda a bit too anxious to fully switch into Science Brain. ]

I wish Purah and Robbie were here. They would know what to do.

[skyglider]

I know.

[He misses them, too.]

I'll take a look at some of the areas in town.

[multidisciplinary]

What do you plan to do?

[skyglider]

Look for eyes. Find a way to destroy it, if I can.

[multidisciplinary]

[ Shudders. The eyes make her so uncomfortable. ]

The Divine Beasts were plagued by Malice, I assume. Were you able to destroy it to free them?

[skyglider]

Much of it, yes. Destroying the Blights inside them took care of the rest.

[multidisciplinary]

Blights.

[ Tap, tap, tap goes the quill against the page. She's familiar with the Blights, albeit indirectly. Fragments of Calamity Ganon, capable of acting with greater power and autonomy than the infected Guardians. ]

Do you suppose the persistence of the Malice here in Songerein could be due to the influence of a Blight?

[skyglider]

[Ah...that's an idea he had not considered before.]

Yes. It's possible. Perhaps the nightmares left a piece behind when they vanished.

[multidisciplinary]

[ No, don't agree with her! She wants to be wrong (for once)! ]

But with Calamity Ganon gone, all of its subservients should have disappeared as well. A Blight shouldn't be able to persist without its source.

[skyglider]

[Sorry, Princess. He calls them like he sees them.]

That's true. Perhaps because it was created by nightmare energy...?

[multidisciplinary]

I suppose it is the prerogative of this dream world to make as little sense as possible.

[ SIGH. Why can't you make anything easy, Songerein? ]

[skyglider]

It makes its own rules,
I suppose.

[He sympathizes, Princess.]

[multidisciplinary]

I do wish that it would not.

[ Tap, tap, tap continues her quill upon the page. ]

If you find any evidence of a Blight, [ don't engage. she doesn't want to lose you again ] please be careful.

[skyglider]

[He reads as much between the lines, and while he doesn't say anything, he understands. Agrees. They have both lost enough already.]

I will. Don't worry.