A pleasant village with a lot of cuccos and a cool windmill. There's a graveyard round the back too.

::Petunius trots slowly on his horse, avoiding the various chicken thingies, then stops when he sees some locals.::

"Uh excuse me, sorry to be blunt but I need to know how to get to Ganondorf's castle, without having to jump over the massive lava pit of death. Do you know any other way?"

::Andrea slows down as she enters the village and manages to stop near Petunius. She looks around in wonder at the simple little place, quite taken with its charm.::

"The evil King's fortress is impenetrable. Unless you employed the aid of the Sages... but they have disappeared..."

::Petunius frowns.::

"The Sages...? What are they?"

"The guardians of this realm... where is it you are from?"

::Petunius pauses and glances at Andrea for a moment before looking at the villager.::

"Uh...we're from another realm. We kind of got sucked in here by the Triforce's power. Do you know where these guardians normally reside?"

(Maybe we can find something there, rather than wandering off into a territory filled with Xena wannabes.)

"The Sages are of the Forest, Fire, Water, Spirit and Desert. There are two more but I can't remember the details for them, so deal with it, as all of this isn't all that important."

::Andrea groans and slumps forwards on Sharon's neck. Heheheh.::

::Petunius sighs, silently wondering to himself why something can't be easy for once. He smiles politely at the villager.::

"Well thankyou for your time."

::He turns to Andrea.::

"Let's head back to the others. The Gerrudo approach might as well be our next move, if these Sages have disappeared."

"Okay."

::Andrea turns slowly and trots out of the village, back to the field.::

::Petunius rides off after her.::