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[despitethenora]

What is it now?

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slaps a CW BAD FOOD STUFF on this one

[despitethenora]

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.

Re: slaps a CW BAD FOOD STUFF on this one

[nobetawedielike]

Have you ever had to...?

Re: slaps a CW BAD FOOD STUFF on this one

[despitethenora]

[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.]

Re: slaps a CW BAD FOOD STUFF on this one

[nobetawedielike]

...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.

Re: slaps a CW BAD FOOD STUFF on this one

[despitethenora]

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.

[nobetawedielike]

[ 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.

[despitethenora]

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

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

[nobetawedielike]

[ 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.

[despitethenora]

Mm. Picturing freezing in the mountains, aren’t you.

[nobetawedielike]

Or I'd fall in a marsh and drown. Or heat stroke in the desert, or -

[ oops, she's making herself anxious, gotta reset

and in a wonderful glitch of her brain, she just shoves an entire handful of far too many candy fish in her mouth ]

[despitethenora]

[Just gets her phone out and takes a picture.]

Well. It didn’t come to that.

[Though camping out was a lot more comfy for Aloy.]

[nobetawedielike]

[ MAKING AN ALARMED SOUND, CHIPMUNK CHEEKS AND ALL, AND TRYING TO GRAB THAT PHONE ]

[despitethenora]

- Hey.

[Doesn’t think of the easy answer, which would be hopping back over the counter. Instead, she tries to get a hand on Beta to keep her back. Wherever she can. If it’s her sister’s face well that’s unfortunate.]

[nobetawedielike]

[ face smooshing is a technical foul!!!

powering through those fish ]

Rude!

[despitethenora]

Just doing what I have to.

[nobetawedielike]

[ she keeps reaching for the phone, face pressed into Aloy's hand as she giggles for a minute more before finally pulling back ]

That was way too many candy fish.

[despitethenora]

[stubbornly sticking to the game of keep away]

You think? Lucky you didn't choke on them.

[nobetawedielike]

I'll wait until we leave to try some more. I brought us lunch.

[despitethenora]

That's probably the better choice.

[nobetawedielike]

Don't forget I still have a recording of you singing.

[ and then she's going to try and hop the counter all cool and smooth

(it is not cool and smooth) ]

[despitethenora]

[Trying to restrain a smile, before following.]

Then this makes us even.

[nobetawedielike]

No one will ever believe me without it.

[despitethenora]

Let’s just keep it that way.

[nobetawedielike]

Mmmhm. [ she makes no promises ] Which theater should we check first?

[despitethenora]

[She considers the names posted.]

. . . Something about “leprechauns, whatever those are. Misspelled cramps.

Wait, here’s one about a family.