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He blinked staring at the money. Then he sighed. He slid one of each color into various places on his person, the things seeming to almost vanish into his clothes without the advantage of hamner space. He handed the rest back with a sigh. "It's no fun that way," he said. "Seriously, you sure you weren't born here in Auradon?"

"Boreadon," Freddie said with a snort. "And if you don't wan't the money, I'll take it. I'm not picky, pity money is still money."

“Hyrule. Don’t know where exactly, my real folks were killed in the war. I was raised by a tree and eternal fairy children.”

Until the whole Hero of Time thing. And then being adopted in Nautilus.

"Just watch it turns out Hyrule is actually part of Auradon, like up in Neverland or something, and he just doesn't know his geography."

"Well wherever it is, you have to cross an ocean" Freddie said, pointing to the cards.

“That would mean you don’t know your geography either,” Link pointed out. “And that there’s a place brimming with magic in your borders.”

He shook his head. “An ocean? You sure your cards have the right incarnation of me?”

"You asked, I turned over the cards, look for yourself. And we grew up on the Isle, no one really cared what we learned unless it aided a plot to take over Auradon."

"Says the daughter of our former esteemed headmaster," Jay said with mock respect, snorting.

"Hey, if dad cared more you lot wouldn't have been able to bribe him into ignoring you sneaking into the restricted library."

"He was hoping Mal would get herself killed."

"Oh probably."

“Alright. Do they say anything else?”

Link tilted his head. “Oh. Well, I’ve never gone to a real school. But, I’ve gone all over Hyrule on foot. And horseback. And I have a map...”

She waved to the cards. "See for yourself. That first one looks a lot like Agrabah. That's where Jordan's dad is from. Aziz's parents are the Sultana and Sultan there. The plane card seems to just come up as a generic for traveling in regular readings. So I don't know if you need to actually be on a plane, but it if the fastest way to get to Agrabah, if that is what the card is telling you to do. Thing is...?" she tapped the last two cards. "While I might not be sure about the first two, these two I'd bet your life on. A pirate ship. That isn't generic for anything. It is a pirate ship. And this...?" She held up the last card, the one with the coat, grinning brightly.

"Only three people I've ever met had a coat like this. And two of them are trapped on the Isle. The third? Has her own pirate ship."

"And nearly got you exiled back to the Isle, Freddie."

"Look, everyone here is all help each other, good deeds, blah blah boring boring, right? Well who can blame me for trying to help out a poor displaced undereducated orphan?" she asked, with huge wide eyes and fake innocent. "And if doing that just happens to mean that I have to consort with a known criminal at large... I'll have to make that sacrifice. Besides, if this works out maybe it could even clear CJ's name enough that she could stay."

"You really think CJ would even if welcomed?"

She sighed. "Nah. But at least we can bring her an adventure!"

“There’s really no teleportation? Or birds?”

Link was disappointed. Flying in a machine seemed downright dull.

"Of course there are birds, but unless you happen to be one, that helps how?"

That earned a blink.

“They can fly you,” he said slowly. “You ride in their talons.”

"What kind of birds do you have?" Freddie asked. "Cause the only bird I could think of strong enough to do that might be Diablo and my bet is he'd sooner kill you."

“There’s giant owls. A giant owl. And there’s legends of even bigger birds people rode like horses.”

"Yeah no, not here. Here we ride planes. Or the occasional magic carpet, but I'm not sure where he...oh. Betcha he's in Agrabah!"

“Planes are boring...” he muttered to himself. “And it’ll take forever....”

Magic carpets were something he was actually familiar with, and felt were more trustworthy. Even if he did prefer teleportation or horseback.

Freddie shrugged. "Wouldn't know. I think Mal's been on one once, though."

“I’d still rather teleport...”

Link sighed. “Or ride a horse. But, what should I do now?”

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"Well teleporting is out, but we could probably get steal horse or two," Freddie said. "But it'll take us a long time to get to Agrabah on horseback."

“Like a day or two? That’s not too awful.”

At the prospect of being able to ride, Link noticeably brightened.

"Wow, not at all what I said, that takes skill. I said a horse or two. It'll probably take a few weeks, if the horses survive the blistering heat of the desert."

“What kinda fragile horses do you guys have? The Gerudo use horses and they live in the desert full time. And you could always travel at night. It’s frigid, but, easier...”

Link sighed. “I still think I can get the ocarina working....think anyone would notice a small rainstorm?”

"Uh, normal ones? And yeah, probably." Please take this all with a grain of salt as Freddie has maybe actually SEEN a horse at most twice in her life.

Link privately felt a magicless kingdom with delicate horses was asking to be invaded. Now he regretted viewing them as a threat to Hyrule. If anything, this place might need Hyrule’s protection!

Distracted, Link played an idle scale on the Ocarina of Time, which became the Song of Storms, without him thinking it through.

Freddie eyed the gathering clouds. "Um........." She quickly started putting away her cards.

Link was unfazed, still playing, until he felt a raindrop.

Utterly delighted, he looked at the sky and then back at the instrument in his hands. “Alright!! You do work here!!!”

"Hey, so guess what, this is the part where I split," Jay said, vaulting over the bleachers to head off.

"Hey! WAIT!" Freddie called after him. "COWARD!"

He spun to gave them a double thumbs up while running backwards.

"If you get me sent back to the Isle or ruin my cards I will straight up murder you," she told Link.