[His sigh is deep and long-suffering, as though hailing from the beginning of time itself as he mutters to himself. He's functionally a fugitive! The world will (probably) end if he gets caught! Nobody appreciates this, because it's not like he can tell them—!
... Okay. Okay. Regain your composure, Sheik, and focus back on the more important part of the topic at hand.]
Then I will explain it like this: this world is as real to those who live within it as Hyrule is to you or I, as are its problems. To aid someone here is not to simply act out some figment of one's imagination, but a genuine boon to the recipient. [A glance cast back to the bay horse. He doesn't know what "chiropracty" is, but he can't imagine the horses are unhappy having an experienced hand like Malon's helping them.] But there is something about this realm that draws in the minds of those at rest and grants them form and power. Among those drawn in, one may consider this a shared dream of a sort, untethered to time or place.
[He pauses, then after a moment's consideration, adds a bit more stiffly:]
... I've been assured that the time one spends here does not directly translate to how long one has been asleep at home. Otherwise, I'd have been dozing for some ten months by my estimation.
[That was... a major concern upon his first awakening here, but experience has not seemed to have proved the tapirs wrong in their assurances thus far. Anxious as he is, that's the only reason he's not throwing himself at the walls of this place trying to return to Hyrule.]
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[His sigh is deep and long-suffering, as though hailing from the beginning of time itself as he mutters to himself. He's functionally a fugitive! The world will (probably) end if he gets caught! Nobody appreciates this, because it's not like he can tell them—!
... Okay. Okay. Regain your composure, Sheik, and focus back on the more important part of the topic at hand.]
Then I will explain it like this: this world is as real to those who live within it as Hyrule is to you or I, as are its problems. To aid someone here is not to simply act out some figment of one's imagination, but a genuine boon to the recipient. [A glance cast back to the bay horse. He doesn't know what "chiropracty" is, but he can't imagine the horses are unhappy having an experienced hand like Malon's helping them.] But there is something about this realm that draws in the minds of those at rest and grants them form and power. Among those drawn in, one may consider this a shared dream of a sort, untethered to time or place.
[He pauses, then after a moment's consideration, adds a bit more stiffly:]
... I've been assured that the time one spends here does not directly translate to how long one has been asleep at home. Otherwise, I'd have been dozing for some ten months by my estimation.
[That was... a major concern upon his first awakening here, but experience has not seemed to have proved the tapirs wrong in their assurances thus far. Anxious as he is, that's the only reason he's not throwing himself at the walls of this place trying to return to Hyrule.]