Title: chicken on a raft
Fandom: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Rating: General Audiences.
Length: 194
Author's note: minor spoilers for Zero Dawn, if you haven't finished the main storyline through Sunfall
Summary:The Sundom (and Shadow...dom?) is full of new things to encounter.
 

Aloy has never been on a boat before.

In the water, yes, collecting arrow-speared fish, and also on a bridge above the river and streams that cut through the Embrase, and riding a Strider across shallow crossings where there is no need for one, but floating on a craft on water? Never.

If not for her focus, she would have had to ask what a boat was, the first time she'd heard the word. Aloy'd been sneaking about the settlement at the time, pretending to be Carja, it would have been awkward as anything to suddenly drop the act.

As first times go, getting to the thing was rather more excitement than Aoly usually experiences - finds typically happens while or as a result of new thing (Tallnecks) or place, like Cauldrons - but the actual journey is peaceful. A light mist is lingering over the gently moving surface of the water, no Snapmaws in sight, Itamen is curled up in his mother arms, almost asleep (she tries not to stare too obviously) and even if there were fish to aim at Aloy isn't getting her clothes wet without the sun to dry them.