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Adrian and Chell have been traveling for several days now. It's become more and more obvious as they go just why nobody's out here in the wilderness any more. The Xenian wildlife's been much more in evidence as the forests've thinned out: headcrabs, bullsquids, purplish croaking one-eyed things, packs of small chirping dog-creatures with one end full of eyes and a powerful sonic attack. There's still Earth wildlife about, but what doesn't fly tends to be furtive and fleeting at best.
It's made Adrian cranky and taciturn. He grew up a country boy, and while he might be on the conservative side in a lot of areas, you don't go poisoning nature or letting things go in places where the local life isn't adapted to what you're releasing. That's just not right. At least there's been plants to forage. Autumn's coming, but late summer vegetation's still in evidence, and there've been edible fungi to be found. And bugs. He's had no problem eating those and offering the plants and such to Chell. Or the bugs, if she's shown willing, but he really doesn't expect her to go for those. Civilians and city folk generally don't.
At any rate, they've finally emerged from the densest part of the forest and into what looks like it might've been farm country once. The trees here are farther between and definitely young, and something that's either a dry streambed or the remains of a road can be made out up ahead...
It's made Adrian cranky and taciturn. He grew up a country boy, and while he might be on the conservative side in a lot of areas, you don't go poisoning nature or letting things go in places where the local life isn't adapted to what you're releasing. That's just not right. At least there's been plants to forage. Autumn's coming, but late summer vegetation's still in evidence, and there've been edible fungi to be found. And bugs. He's had no problem eating those and offering the plants and such to Chell. Or the bugs, if she's shown willing, but he really doesn't expect her to go for those. Civilians and city folk generally don't.
At any rate, they've finally emerged from the densest part of the forest and into what looks like it might've been farm country once. The trees here are farther between and definitely young, and something that's either a dry streambed or the remains of a road can be made out up ahead...