I picked this route for that reason. Avoiding other wildlife, that is.
[For his part, 9S doesn't sit. But that makes it easier to point to the forest extending to the left of them. It looks no different than the rest, and yet he had avoided it with good reason. When the objective is to assure that the human following him was safe and unthreatened, he had to be selective in their course]
There's a predatory species that way. Pack animals...I heard them pursuing something.
[He couldn't say with certainty at this range just what they are, but he does know that it's better to avoid anything that comes in numbers. Although he's confident he'd have no difficulty killing an attacking animal, or even a half dozen, this human had a demonstrated distaste for the idea. And it's better not to go about killing things without necessity.
If they required materials, sure, but when it's entirely avoidable it's something of a waste]
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[For his part, 9S doesn't sit. But that makes it easier to point to the forest extending to the left of them. It looks no different than the rest, and yet he had avoided it with good reason. When the objective is to assure that the human following him was safe and unthreatened, he had to be selective in their course]
There's a predatory species that way. Pack animals...I heard them pursuing something.
[He couldn't say with certainty at this range just what they are, but he does know that it's better to avoid anything that comes in numbers. Although he's confident he'd have no difficulty killing an attacking animal, or even a half dozen, this human had a demonstrated distaste for the idea. And it's better not to go about killing things without necessity.
If they required materials, sure, but when it's entirely avoidable it's something of a waste]