Green ceased poking the Repairman, blinking in surprise at the small patches of frost that had appeared where he had touched him. Huh- that was weird! He briefly wondered what would happen if he phased through the Repairman completely, but decided that it was probably best he didn’t find out. He didn’t want to do something like accidentally kill the poor blob, and made a mental note to be extra careful to go around him in the future.

“Toontown sounds like an interesting place! We’ll have to see if we can visit sometime. I’m not surprised we haven’t wound up there, though.” Vio shifted his weight, cocking his hip as he tapped his lips in thought. “Our world is really bizarre when you stop to think about it. There’s several parallel universes and alternate dimensions connected to Hyrule that we know of, and probably many more that we don’t. Not to mention, one of the previous Heroes managed to split the timestream into 3 unique branches, which is another can of worms entirely. It would take us a long time to sift through all of that to travel to another reality entirely if we were left to our own devices.” Vio spared a quick glance at the Wall to make sure that he hadn’t broken it again, but as he expected, no new cracks had appeared. He suspected it was because he had restricted himself to talking about his home world only, and aside from the split timeline mess, the parallel worlds and alternate dimensions were things they had known about while alive. Heck, most of them had wound up in at least one of the worlds during their adventures!

The Repairman found himself getting pretty interested in all this. He never thought to ask about how universes could relate to each other. Besides, this was far easier to grasp than fourth wall breaks in something like Wreck-it Ralph (the game, not the movie).

He turned to look at the recently-fixed Wall.

“No wonder it took a while for me to get here,” he mused. “Most alternate universes aren’t this connected…”

The Repairman had, indeed, visited Hyrule once or twice, mostly as a checkup. But…he felt like he was a little deeper in now. Just a feeling.

He began looking around rapidly. It was just his luck there weren’t other breaks happening in that moment; he had no idea which way was out again.

“Uh,” he asked, nervously, “There is a way through, though, right?”