Roja was exhausted. She was beat up from a Hinox she just challenged, with bruises on her sides and limbs. She was too tired to carry on foot so she was now riding on a wild horse, who was finally doing as she told instead of bucking her off like before, which had given her numerous extra bruises. Surprisingly, more than the Hinox had. The sun beat down on her as she rode calmly through Hyrule field, but the wind gave a soft breeze which cooled her down. Her messy red hair was tied up in a bun and she wore some of her coolest clothes, shorts with a sleeveless tunic and sandals. The bandages she had wrapped around her were sticky and uncomfortable so she knew she'd have to swap them with new ones fairly soon but she didn't have the supply at the moment. And she loved all of it. She was crunching on some apples and occasionally reaching over to feed one to her horse, and nobody was here to tell her no to anything. She was so relaxed that she didnt even have her weapons equipped, just tucked into her bag attached to her horse. She stared up at the clouds as she ate her apple, trusting her horse to simply follow the path, when she was jolted out of her trance as her horse neighed and bucked her off, and ran a few yards away. She winced, the hard blow to her head giving her whiplash. She struggled to get on her knee, pushing her light body up with her hand, when she turned to see the source of her horse's fright. Two bokoblin riders. How did she not notice them before?
She rolled her eyes, annoyed she was injured by monsters so weak, and reached back to grab her meteor rod...only to grasp air. Adrenaline began to pump through her veins as she felt panic welling up in her gut. Her weapons were all back on her horse. She forced herself on her feet and struggled to process her situation. Two bokoblin riders, one red and one blue. This would be easy enough with a horse and a spear but she didn't those now. She looked around her, looking for any sort of weapon, but only saw empty plains. A squeal let her know one of the bokoblins was charging. She prepared herself for to dodge but she had let her guard down by focusing on just one. The second, the blue one, squealed from behind and she spun around just time to see it's club swing down before she was knocked back onto the ground, breathless; it had knocked the wind out of her. She ached on the ground, vision blurred from searing pain. She begged her body to move, to find the strength to get up and fight back or run, but she just couldn't move. Was she really in the same state as a petty traveler right now? Was this how she would die, or would she be saved by another traveler and have to give them her thanks like every other adventurer? She would either die right now or be saved and have to deal with the shame of being a damsel in distress. Her vision began to come back to focus and the ringing in her ears subsided. Her head felt like hammers were pounding at the walls of her skull and her thoughts weren't clear. She managed to sit up and see that the bokoblins had rode off, still in her sight but they weren't paying her any attention now. They must have assumed she was dead and had no loot, which half of which was correct. She scanned the plains around her, and saw her horse grazing on some grass a few yards away. She lowered her body into the tall grass which enveloped her body in a camouflage, and began to army crawl through the dirt towards her horse, praying to Din she wouldn't be caught off guard by a Chu Chu. Not only would she be unable to fight off the disgusting jellies at the moment, but of all enemies her least favourite were Chu Chus. Their jiggly and see through bodies revolted her, just the sight of their pulsing gel and bug eyes made her feel sick. After taking several breaks, either due to lack of energy or avoiding the bokoblin's gaze, she managed to pull herself up by gripping onto her bag and she threw herself over onto her horse, who just neighed. She collapsed onto it's back and patted it to let it know to go. Her head still ached, and the last thing she managed to do before letting herself fall asleep on the horse's back was steering it to the path so it would continue on its own. She wasn't going to make it to Hateno village now, she would have to stop at Kakariko to rest. Her eyes fluttered shut just as her horse's hooves met the dirt path.