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[ 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.]

...When we first woke up here, I was so worried I wouldn't be able to figure out getting food. I couldn't even wash my own clothes. Even just worrying about it was hard...I can't imagine what it must have been like for it to be a reality. For you, or anyone else on Earth.

Well - it's hard, without some of the things the ancients had. But when you're growing up in it, you learn what you have to do as you grow. For you - everything must have piled on you at once.

[ she fidgets with the spear, rolling it in her hands with little tosses. ]

I'd already anticipated the difficulty when considering escape routes from the Zeniths, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Imagine if we hadn't set up at the base.

[Seemed to Aloy that Beta though things were primitive enough with the base.]

[ she does, her face going on a journey best described "oh god, I would have drowned in a swamp and I'm just realizing it" . ]

....Mmmaybe it's for the best that didn't happen.

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