The Park, Sunday Morning

[not_of_the_nora]

Yes, Aloy knew she didn't need to hunt to get by in this place. But not doing so made her restless, made her worry that with every minute on this island she was losing more of her edge.

So she spent her morning in the wooded area, hunting rabbits. Mostly for sport, choosing to startle instead of kill, but in the end she'd taken just one as a breakfast reward. She'd skinned it before leaving for the park.

Upon arrival to the park, she'd got a small fire going in a sandy area. She was sitting by that fire now, pushing pieces of rabbit meat onto sticks. Pushing sticks into the ground to hold those rabbit skewers when she was done with them.

She always thought about Rost when she did this. So she was smiling.

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[justice_undone]

"Difficult to avoid if you have a human body," Breq said, making sure to smile at Aloy. "Have you find anything here you like though? Not food, I mean."

[not_of_the_nora]

"People who will actually talk to me," Aloy said, "Instead of ignoring me because some mountain told them to. Otherwise? It's just like any place."

[justice_undone]

"Why do they think the mountain told them that?"

Breq asked the question assuming the mountain actually hadn't, knowing that it very well might have, where Aloy was from.