“Yeah, Sparky’s another one of the heroes. There’s ten of us, actually, thirteen if you count Red, Blue, Green and myself as separate people. I’ll go get him.” Vio walked away, vanishing after a few steps as he entered the ghostly ether the ghosts were inhabiting in their spare time.

Green bounced a little in place as he told Inky about Hyrule’s technological advances. “Yeah, cars and computer thingies and all sorts of mechanical and electric contraptions! It’s pretty cool, although I’ll admit I get pretty lost trying to understand it all.” He grinned at the repairman’s bewildered expression. “I guess to an outsider, all of us seem pretty close together, but hundreds of years pass in between our gaaaaaarand grand adventures, so it’s kinda a blink-and-you-miss-it thing for someone not from out world. Or at least I think that’s how it works.”

Before he could speculate more, Vio returned with a new Hero, presumably the one they had called “Sparky”.

“Uh, hi?” He waved timidly at the toon. “Vio kinda rushed the explanation, do you really fix the Fourth Wall?”

“Oh, okay,” he nodded. Made sense; more timelines meant more heroes. “Wait, ‘count as separate’…?”

But Vio was already gone. Ah, well.

“Hmm,” he said, turning to Green, “Makes sense. I’ve seen everything from the Stone Age to the far future, several times. I just didn’t expect this world to make such a leap, I guess…”

He realized how mean that sounded and quickly added: “I mean, a lot of magical worlds tend to stay the same. I guess magic makes a lot of ’em complacent.”

He idly looked around as he spoke, and as he did so, he saw Vio and a new ghost, presumably Sparky, appear.

“OH!” he exclaimed, jumping slightly. “Um, yes, that would be me. We were just talking about how much this place has changed…”