[The fact that Claire's Earth still has countries tells Aloy most of what she needs to know, and her curiosity is piqued. She can't help but be at least a little interested in hearing about someone else's experience.]
Yeah, there are a lot of us. Lots of different versions.
[Her situation is a bit hard to explain, but she does fish for any recognition.]
[ Claire's always had a glass face, and so her surprise isn't at all hidden at Aloy's answer. ]
Are you really?
[ Her own curiosity is similarly perked, and she blinks away her astonishment. ]
I'm sorry, that was rude. I've lived the last, oh, twenty or so years in the American East, so I'm always a bit excited when someone says something familiar. Something that remotely sounds like where I've lived most of my life.
[To her knowledge, she's far in the future of any Earth that's represented here, so she won't blame anyone for questioning her, especially given her preferred modes of dress and the weapons she carries, to say nothing of the state of her Horizon.
Claire says the East and Aloy tries to picture the maps and globes she's seen--she knows it all exists, now, but given the relatively small scope of her travels so far (and the effort it takes to travel), it feels impossibly far away, almost as if it belongs to another world.]
[ Claire takes a deep breath, thinking back on Boston before exhaling softly. The beginning of her time in Boston is a haze of pregnancy and grief, and then being a new mother and grief. But eventually, as she clawed her way out of the hole she'd felt buried in, she began to explore her new home with Bree in her stroller. ]
The exact city I lived, Boston, is a busy city; one of the oldest in the nation, if not the. I can't quite remember, I wasn't the historian in the family. In any case, there was a harbor, so I liked to take my daughter fishing when she was older.
[ When she was older and Frank was out of town, unable to take Bree with him. Claire as the default parent, and it was felt. Still, she smiles at Aloy. ]
The east in general has the Appalachian mountains, and I've been told, from someone quite in my future, that I'll be living there, in the backwoods. My husband's a hunter, and I'm a forager, so I can't say it doesn't make sense.
[ And it's their land, to boot. That blows her mind and terrifies her all at the same time. It means Jamie had to turn traitor, but she can't think about that now. ]
For all the green, there are major cities as well, so busy that you can find anything you need at any time of day or night. On vacation, I used to take my daughter to the beach, it was an annual holiday and there were carnival games along the pier, plenty of other families doing the same.
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Yeah, there are a lot of us. Lots of different versions.
[Her situation is a bit hard to explain, but she does fish for any recognition.]
I'm from the West, I guess? The American West.
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Are you really?
[ Her own curiosity is similarly perked, and she blinks away her astonishment. ]
I'm sorry, that was rude. I've lived the last, oh, twenty or so years in the American East, so I'm always a bit excited when someone says something familiar. Something that remotely sounds like where I've lived most of my life.
[ And apparently, where she's living again. ]
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[To her knowledge, she's far in the future of any Earth that's represented here, so she won't blame anyone for questioning her, especially given her preferred modes of dress and the weapons she carries, to say nothing of the state of her Horizon.
Claire says the East and Aloy tries to picture the maps and globes she's seen--she knows it all exists, now, but given the relatively small scope of her travels so far (and the effort it takes to travel), it feels impossibly far away, almost as if it belongs to another world.]
I've never been. What's it like?
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The exact city I lived, Boston, is a busy city; one of the oldest in the nation, if not the. I can't quite remember, I wasn't the historian in the family. In any case, there was a harbor, so I liked to take my daughter fishing when she was older.
[ When she was older and Frank was out of town, unable to take Bree with him. Claire as the default parent, and it was felt. Still, she smiles at Aloy. ]
The east in general has the Appalachian mountains, and I've been told, from someone quite in my future, that I'll be living there, in the backwoods. My husband's a hunter, and I'm a forager, so I can't say it doesn't make sense.
[ And it's their land, to boot. That blows her mind and terrifies her all at the same time. It means Jamie had to turn traitor, but she can't think about that now. ]
For all the green, there are major cities as well, so busy that you can find anything you need at any time of day or night. On vacation, I used to take my daughter to the beach, it was an annual holiday and there were carnival games along the pier, plenty of other families doing the same.
[ Claire glances at Aloy, just as curious. ]
What's home like for you?