[ Since he's scrutinizing her, then he's likely to really notice what makes her stand out as not belonging here. Even at a glance, it's fairly clear because she doesn't wear her hair in the style of a lady of this time period, but even more than that, it's not really a style that you'd see, well, anywhere. Her hair is braided in parts, but those braids are all closed with beads, straps of leather, and other little decorations that don't look manufactured at all.
She's scrutinizing him in return, but there's not nearly as much to see. The context where she can understand people is sorely absent, since most of the people that she's calling allies now look more like people from Elizabet's time than her own. Yet she feels fairly neutral about that, because even if it's unfamiliar, it's interesting and useful to her. She watches again as he starts to clean the rifle, but she doesn't get any closer just yet. ]
Me neither. The guns I've used aren't really easier to use than a bow, but they fire faster.
[ She shrugs casually as she thinks of the guns that she can shoot off the larger machines. She doesn't like using those, but they have their purpose in fighting more larger machines. Her next question is direct, almost blunt, but she's getting to a question she actually wants to ask. ]
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She's scrutinizing him in return, but there's not nearly as much to see. The context where she can understand people is sorely absent, since most of the people that she's calling allies now look more like people from Elizabet's time than her own. Yet she feels fairly neutral about that, because even if it's unfamiliar, it's interesting and useful to her. She watches again as he starts to clean the rifle, but she doesn't get any closer just yet. ]
Me neither. The guns I've used aren't really easier to use than a bow, but they fire faster.
[ She shrugs casually as she thinks of the guns that she can shoot off the larger machines. She doesn't like using those, but they have their purpose in fighting more larger machines. Her next question is direct, almost blunt, but she's getting to a question she actually wants to ask. ]
When are you from, exactly?