4 Apocalypse, Thursday Morning

[not_of_the_nora]

Sorry, Fandom. After several weeks of relative quiet in 4 Apocalypse, Aloy was... trying things again, with the computer system they had running now. Trying things that involved setting up a power grid on the ground floor, and since she wanted to make sure there was as little space between her new grid and her power source while she was testing it...

...the Sunwing was standing in the middle of the road, not far from her door, its solar panel wings firmly outstretched. The door was open, thick cables keeping it from slamming shut.

And she was in the hallway, meticulously fitting metal panels and circuitry into a very large hole in the wall.

Oh well.

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[no_missing_piece]

Well, the bathroom fixtures weren't going to rip themselves out to install a generator, after all.

"I think I liked the more rural areas more than I liked Paris," Beta admitted. "There wasn't much information on agriculture that would be useful for the Quen, but the farm was still interesting."

Of course she'd tried to do research on vacation, while also trying very hard to succeed at vacationing.

"The food, the scenery from the boat, all of it was incredibly good, but I would have liked to do the tours at my own pace instead of having to wait for a group." She tilted her head. "Did you go on any of these trips when you were a student?"

[not_of_the_nora]

"I did," Aloy said, after a short moment, as she racked her mind for it. "To a place called... Austria? I think. And the year after that, to somewhere much further away. I think not that far from Quen lands, actually."

[no_missing_piece]

"I had seen holos and read things about Paris before," Beta mused. "So I had... a very general idea of what it might be like, and it was still so much more than I was prepared for. You didn't have any frame of reference for any of it at the time, did you?"

[not_of_the_nora]

"I didn't," Aloy agreed, softer. "I can't say I appreciated it at the time."

[no_missing_piece]

"Of course you didn't," said Beta, familiar as she was with the way both of them tended to think. "Looking back on it now must be an interesting new perspective, though."

[not_of_the_nora]

"I... really don't know," Aloy admitted. She sank back a little. "It's not our world. And it's not really Elisabet's, either. Not yet."

She shook her head.

"Or the way it used to be, before they started breaking it."