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[She’s glancing away, but keeping stride. Beta’s more likely to know from the fiction of family sitcom, tbh.]

Maybe - teaching it to someone is.

She is a mother. A matriarch, among her people.

It makes sense. She's pretty great at being nice and comforting. I was so scared when we first got here, and she just hugged me until I felt better.

[ she also cried but shhh ]

[That's what makes sense...would Elisabet have acted like that for them?]

I'm sorry I wasn't there, back then.

We're together now, that's what's important.

So - was that before any of these games started happening?

It was. We'd only just managed to get out of the houses, and she was going around checking on people.

[ then, with a sudden laugh ]

And there was this guy! He saw the trees and started hugging them and crying.

Ha. That sounds like her.

[A baffled little smile spreads.]

Hugging them?

Yeah! Just took one look and threw himself at them.

I like trees, but that’s - overboard.

[Did this place used to have more dumb puppies to watch. . .]

I don't know about hugging trees, but it might be fun to climb one, one day.

That's easy enough. We can make that happen, sometime.

It'd be fun! Assuming I don't fall out and break my arm or something like that.

The only way to make sure is to practice it. I never broke anything on the paths.

[Just, you know, doing things like blowing out a dam and getting slammed around underwater.]

So it's like punching.

I don't know where you get that connection from. But yeah, probably. Just like any fighting technique.

Leon taught me how to punch earlier. He says he has to stay strong to fight bioterrorism, so he has to do his exercises for it every day. I guess he fell behind on them when he got here.

That'd be pretty easy to fall behind on. There's always something else that needs done.

[She thinks, since she keeps finding work for herself.]

Really? I feel like there's so much free time... But then again, I'm used to a very strict schedule.

Does that mean you'll be spending a lot of time practicing punching things?

[ playfully tapping Aloy's arm with her fist, ]

Why? Are you volunteering?

Ouch.

[It’s not a very believable ‘ouch.’]

Leon might be the better choice for this.

So I can tell him you volunteered him for punching practice?

Of course you can. He should finish what he started, shouldn't he?

Follow-through is the most important part!

Must've heard that one from him.

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