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[Hello Savrou, did you miss vague shitposting about random questions? No? Here, have another! Only this one is with audio, and no odd name other than "Saber." Sadly, the man on the other side is somewhat unused to talking for deep or thought-provoking conversations. Someone help him.]

I have a question.

[...wait, he's supposed to ask everything at once on this thing. Right. This is... definitely not something he's used to. He starts again, trying not to sound too stiff.]

Do you have stories? [Uh. Hm. That still doesn't quite explain what he's looking for. Hang on, let him clarify.] By that I mean your worlds. Your homes. They could be recent, or from the past. Histories, legends. Fairytales. Any of those.

Do you remember any of them? What were they like? [Clearly, this isn't weird to ask anyone, right? It's normal? Siegfried has no idea what "normal" means. He's really bad at this.]

There were many, back in my home. Some faded over time, and others remained. It depended on where you lived or where you were from. [A beat, as if an afterthought:] And if you wanted to believe it or not, I suppose.

[IS THIS HOW YOU HOLD A CONVERSATION he hopes he's doing this right.]

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[Siegfried lets out something that sounds like an amused huff, finding the idea about the Sun King never being a Sun Queen a little hilarious.]

It isn't universal for me, at least. There's several Sun Queens or Sun Goddesses that vary due to the culture or the country that the story comes from.

[He has to pause and really think of how to describe the both of them to Aloy, however. How do you describe something so common back home to someone who's never even heard of it before?]

A horse is an animal- it runs on four legs, has a mane, and usually runs across meadows in groups. Horses graze in fields most of the day, and you can ride on their back as a method of transportation- provided the horse knows you and is comfortable with being ridden. [Yeesh, this is more difficult than he thought.] A car is... another form of transportation, but it's a machine. It has four wheels and can move much faster than a horse.

[That sounds absolutely terrible in describing it, why is this so hard.]

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We have carts where I'm from, but they move about as fast as the person pulling it. [Machine-powered carts sound like something the world could make a lot of use of - if her tribe ever stopped being afraid of technology for long enough to see.]

Actually, we have something a little like horses, too, but they're machines. You can override them if you have a special device, but usually they attack on sight. I think I was the first one to ever ride one.

[She laughs as something occurs to her.] Sounds like the opposite of your world. We have machine horses and you have machine carts.

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People pull carts in your world? [That's not an answer he's expecting, but based on everything else she's said, he doesn't doubt that it's definitely true.]

That's... actually not that hard to imagine. [He's heard of legends that would have something like that- and if a Rider ever had one, he wouldn't be surprised.] Why would they attack? Most horses are rather calm, so long as you don't startle them.

[He lets out an amused huff.] It sounds like it. I'd imagine a lot of people have differences like ours between worlds.