Link snorted. "In other words, you'll just talk right over them until they give up trying to get you to listen," he said, grabbing the Slate off his hip. "That's a page right out of your sister's book."
He pulled up the map, then frowned when he didn't see Ruta's travel gate lit up. "Why is- oh." He blinked, then raised his eyebrows. "You'll have to start doing that talking over them thing," he said. "Ruta's completely offline. I can't use the Slate to quick travel up there, I'd have to climb up the old fashioned way and get it turned back on."
That sounded fun. He looked up at Ruta. "On the other hand, you can tell them that Ruta's not doing anything or going anywhere, that's for certain. Until either I can get up there with the Slate, or we find a new pilot it'll respond to, it's probably not going to go anywhere or do anything."