[OPEN] july catcahll

[lightkeeping]

Who: Aloy and YOU
When: throughout July
Where: Solvunn, the Horizon
What: settling in, inadvisable camping, robot dinosaurs, whatever I WANT
Warnings: will list as needed

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[wiedzminka]

Are all animals where you're from machines?

[ On the one hand, the machine bird-thing is fascinating and Ciri's trying to imagine a clockwork horse now. On the other... that is kind of sad. She's talked to other people who don't have horses where they're from, but they hadn't known what a horse even is. Saying they don't have real horses points to something else entirely. ]

[lightkeeping]

Not all of them.

[There's something a little sad in the way she says it, not that she's going to elaborate--it's too long of a story anyway, and if Ciri comes from a place without the concept of machines or AI or everything else, it's just going to take longer.

And, besides, it's not exactly a good topic for a first meeting.]

Smaller animals. Birds, fish, rabbits. But I guess in here we can have anything we want, huh?

[wiedzminka]

[ Not all. But most, it seems, the way she says it. Ciri catches the note of something melancholy, but doesn't linger on it. The last part is all that matters right now.

She smiles. ]

That is true. I can show you all sorts of beasts and creatures that exist in my world.

My name's Ciri.

Don't suppose you're in Cadens?

[lightkeeping]

Aloy.

[Her smile is pulled a little tight, like she's not quite used to these kinds of casual interactions, but Ciri is friendly enough, so she reciprocates, even if it's a little awkward. She does, however, seem genuinely interested in the offer.]

No, Solvunn. [For better or worse. She hasn't quite decided.] So I guess we'll have to talk about them in here, for the time being.

[wiedzminka]

Solvunn.

[ That's on the rarer side. Not many Summoned there, to Ciri's knowledge. ]

Then you must know Nero. He showed me some monsters from his world in here, at the Roadhouse. Bit of an eccentric, but funny.

[lightkeeping]

[Aloy offers a shrug--she's a little ambivalent about Solvunn. Being made to work on a farm is not necessarily her idea of being useful, and the lack of any technology is an adjustment. That said, she's not sure if any other location is much better.]

Yeah, I know him. [Barely, but enough to consider him kind of a weirdo. Eccentric is probably a good word for it.] I'll tell him you said hi.