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4th moon [written]

[Written with a quill:]

Which writing instruments do you generally favor?

[Written with a ball-point pen:]

Are they the same you could find in your worlds?

[Written with a graphite pencil:]

Also, what are all of these named?

[Written with an ink brush:]

Rydia, I'll need to speak to you.

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[Written in an ordinary lead pencil]

This one!

[Voice]

I don't know what it's called, though. But there's lots of them at the shops and I can rub it out when I make mistakes.

It's a pencil!

Pencils, as she said.

[Not that Cecil knew that two hours ago.]

Do you favor any particular type of pencil?

Oh - thanks, Selphie!

I like the kind with the eraser at the end. [He knows 'eraser' but not 'pencil'?] That way, I don't lose it.

That does sound practical, especially if we need to keep many around.

Uh huh! Lots of people use them for school.

Because their markings can be erased if you make mistakes?

I guess so! I make a lot of mistakes when I write, anyway.

Being able to erase them must be a blessing. With quills, all we could do was cross them out and pray our tutors would not comment on them.

Those are dumb. When I learnt to write in Hyrule, we used charcoal - it's all smugdey and makes your fingers go black, but the ones who were really good used those. There's a plant which has black sap, like ink, and they used that.

Charcoal? Perhaps they have some of it here...

[Rummaging sounds over here.]

Have you seen that plant in Luceti? It could be used as an independent, replenishing source of ink.

No, I haven't seen it at all. I think it's something that only grows in Hyrule, like Dekus.

Dekus? What sort of plant is it?

They're trees! They can be really big, really old trees and can talk to people, and there's also Deku scrubs that can move around. I turned into one during the last experiment. The Great Deku Tree looked after the forest.

Sentient trees that are not monsters? That they would look after the rest of the forest makes sense... Are they born Dekus, or do they become so with age?

Well, some of the scrubs attack people, but I think they're just scared easily. And born, I think... when the Great Deku Tree died, the Deku Sprout started growing right in front of it.

In other words, the forest is never left without a guardian? If the one that died was immediately replaced by its successor...

Not really... it took seven years for the Deku Sprout to grow. A little after the Great Deku Tree died, a man called Ganondorf took over. [His expression darkens a little.] The Deku Sprout only grew when I stopped the monster in the Forest Temple and awakened the Sage.

...It seems all the worlds have their own stories of attacks and invasions. Was the Sprout harmed, during those seven years?

[Good question.] I don't think so... it was underground. It was almost as big as me when it finally appeared, so I guess it was fine!

[His dignity... not so much.]

That does sound like a healthy sprout. Did it seem in high spirits?

Uh huh! It was really cheerful - the Great Deku Tree was always really serious. I guess that was because he was really old, huh?

Even the elderly can be high-spirited, but many of them do tend to be calmer and wiser.

Yeah... he wasn't grumpy or anything, but I guess he was really calm and wise.

He sounds like the sort of person you'd visit to receive advice and stories.

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