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[She stands again, abandoning the popcorn to come look at the display. Best not eat floor popcorn anyway.]

Colorful packaging...something like some of the items in Foodland?

Looks like it! If we can find where it opens...

[ she doesn't have Aloy's coordination, so she's going to look for a way around the counter rather than hopping it ]

[Making her way over, and hopping the counter because she wasn't even raised in a barn.]

Things around here tend to have pretty simple mechanisms, right?

[ meeting her behind the counter-- ]

Usually! We could probably force it open if we had to.

I can probably break a panel, if if comes down to it.

[But she bets Beta can use an opportunity to solve it.]

[ nerdclone enrichment! she squatting down to check out the lock on the case ]
I think if you can find me something to do it with, I can just pop this open! Just needs force. Something solid, like a stick?

[She peers at it.]

Do you want my spear, or something a little smaller?

I can use your spear?

Just make sure I get it back in one piece.

Promise.

[ grabby hands ]

[Aloy unslings the spear, and holds it out to Beta.]

Here you go.

[ once she has it positioned, there's a moment where she really needs to put some oomf in it-- but then it gives, and she cheers ]

Got it!

[ time to raid the candy shelf like an ancient chest ]

[Don't chuckle, don't chuckle. Lets Beta hold onto the spear until she should think to offer it back, instead leaning in to claim some candy.]

They made this one look like tiny fruit.

[ just casually hanging onto the spear nbd ]

And it's not dusty...It looks like it was just put in. Is - There's candy shaped like fish!

Give it a try?

[ ripping those suckers open and noming ]

...It tastes very red.

[Snorts, and opens hers up, too.]

Probably better than tasting green.

Tasting green would be...a plant, I think. So maybe not so bad? We eat plants. This is red like...cherries but even sweeter.

Green could also be something spoiled.

Why would you eat something spoiled?

[ she asks it without thought. the zenith's benefits package doesn't include much, but at least going hungry had never been a threat. ]

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Sometimes the things you'd forage wouldn't come in like you'd hoped. Sometimes you didn't find an animal to hunt. You end up making do with what you already have.

[The Utaru had it so, SO lucky with the plowhorns.]

Even if it makes you sick?

People get hungry. And maybe you won't get sick. Maybe it hasn't gone yet, and maybe you can cut out the part that looks like it's turned. Maybe if you cook it really well.

Have you ever had to...?

[Presses her lips together, and considers. Opens up some candy, and pops a piece in.]

There were some tight winters when I was little, but Rost made the best of things that he could. And once I had the Focus, and was decent with the bow, it got easier.

[Rost was a damn good hunter in the first place. Then foraging and hunting's so much easier once you have detective vision.]

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