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She chuckled. "Thanks, Idris. Nah, fish fingers are fish bits shaped into long strips and breaded and fried. I guess they looked like fingers to someone at some point. Chicken fingers are the same thing, just with chicken instead of fish." She pointed once they got into the kitchen. "Bowls in there," she said. "Spoons there." She pulled out the huge bowl of banana custard and set it out, plastic wrap over the top, then started setting the fish fingers up on a tray to toss in the oven. Right. She reached over to preheat the oven.

[Link stared at the large bowl and the plastic covering it. He poked a cautious finger at it, grimacing at the texture of the wrap.

He then looked up at the cabinet that held the bowls and hoisted himself up on a counter to be able to get them easier. Link was surprised by the number of bowls and plates and such. He hesitantly got two bowls and slid off the counter, setting them beside the larger bowl.

Spoons, were an utter mystery. He opened the drawer that Amy had indicated, and saw the collection of flatware, of which he only recognized the knives. Link stared at the silverware for a few seconds.

Leaving the drawer open he went back to the large bowl of custard and shook it slightly, watching it jiggle. He then, walked back to the drawer, and with great uncertainty, picked up two forks, and set them beside the bowls.]

She got the fish fingers in the oven, then saw the forks and chuckled. "This place is filled with interesting ways to eat custard," she said with a grin as she pulled off the plastic wrap and threw it out. "You might have an easier time now." She grabbed spoons. "Also, these are easier to scoop it with."

Oh.

[Link awkwardly picked up a spoon in his left fist, trying to scoop out some custard into a bowl. His brow was furrowed with determination, but, it was fairly obvious he'd never used one.]

She smiled, keeping herself from laughing, and came up behind him, gently adjusting his grip, then putting her hand over his to help him serve into the bowls. "There you go," she said, grinning. "Fish fingers are almost ready."

[The sword on his back came naturally to him, as if he'd used it his whole life. The weird flatware on the other hand---his shoulder and arm were stiff as he attempted to maneuver it even with Amy's help.

Once it was in the smaller bowls he set the spoon down and stared at it, curiously.]

What's it made of?

"Metal," she said, teasing, then winked at him. "The custard has eggs, banana, sugar, cornstarch, milk, and some vanilla."

[Link peered at the dessert with increased intensity. He knew what eggs and milk were, of course. And bananas had been for sale in the market along with sugar. Cornstarch, he didn't understand, figuring it was actual corn, which seemed an odd thing to put with a banana.

Vanilla was an utter mystery.

Normally, he'd ask Navi about these things.]

What's vanilla?

Is that what makes it wiggly?

[Link poked one of the smaller bowls watching the custard jiggle slightly.]

She chuckled. "Vanilla is a flavouring. I think the cornstarch maybe what does it, not sure. If you want, we can make a fresh batch so you can help and see how it works. If we had the 'net, I'd just bring up a 'what is' video on Youtube."

[Link's expression was blank.]

How could a net tell us anything? Maybe there's a Gossip Stone that's heard something about it....

"Net is short for internet," she explained. This was tice now having to explain the internet to someone. On balance, she still liked this place though.

"The internet is a sort of space where people can post up images and videos and text and look for it. Lots of people post explanations of things or lessons other people might want to learn. Good way to learn how to bake. Not so useful for learning how to riverdance."

It's a library? With pictographs?

[Link would take his chances with gossip stones. Or asking Navi,
if he ever saw her again.]

"Ah..... kind of like.... a library the size of a world," she has no idea, "but all available through a device the size of a large hardback book. Or even as small as the communication devices we were given here. And sometimes there are videos, like how we communicated to start, sometimes still images or text, or just audio. But searchable, with billions upon billions of people contributing."

[Link's face scrunched up.]

Billions?

How many's that?

Wow. Ask the hard ones, kid. "Okay, if you took all the people in this world. And then you made 4 more of each of them. Then you took the new total and made a hundred more of each of them, and did that again a hundred times, you still wouldn't be near to a single billion."

There's not that many people in my world.

[He wasn't sure that there were that many trees in the Lost Woods.]

How can there be that many people?

"There are billions of people in my world at any given time. And the internet... well, there are people who contributed to it long ago who have since died. Tens of billions, of not more, have contributed to the internet."

How is there room for 'em all?

[Hyrule was large, but, he couldn't even imagine how vast a world would have to be to house that many people.]

There's only like a dozen of us in the Kokiri Forest.

"Well," she started, then stopped herself and sat down. "Really? There isn't. We have so many issues, poverty, starvation, homelessness, overcrowding. But people keep just.... being people, I guess. In the future, though, we spread out to the stars. Hundreds of worlds or more, colonized by humans and part humans."

Don't other places kinda hate that?

[Sounded like an invading army to Link.]

"Some, but in some cases we find our own places. But the thing with humans? We were born on a world that had a native race even before we descended the trees. Just took us a few thousand years to find out."

Well, of course there can be more than one native race....

[Link looked puzzled. Why would that be surprising? At all?]

What kind of boring place only has one type of people?

"Well until recently, we thought that was our world. Hard learning that we weren't, that even though we were born to the Earth, we were seen as invaders."

That's crazy.

You share the same land.

[Link furrowed his brow, sticking a finger in the custard.]

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