Title: Everything Alright
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 137
Relationship: Aloy & Petra Forgewoman
Summary: It gets to the point where being good at a thing means thinking about it, even when you shouldn't.


Aloy very much does not want to be the kind of person who thinks of ways to kill people when she's looking at them. Not that it isn't useful, in a bandit camp, but Meridian or Mather's Watch is not full of bandits. Not even Free Heap. Next thing she'll be naming her weapons and wearing people's teeth on a necklace. It's the sort of thing that makes her worry about wearing machine parts, and yet ...

Spear to the knee, arrow between the plating -

She's going insane. "Petra!"

"Little flame."

"I need a not killing thing to do."

Petra looks at her. "How are you at hitting metal?"

Somehow, Aloy gets the impression she's not talking Scrappers. "No idea."

Petra grins, stead and sure and solid as steel. "We'll make a forgewoman of you yet."