When Aloy arrives at the clearing they'd agreed upon her girlfriend Sunhawk Talanah Khane Padish is already there waiting for her.
"Took you long enough. Quipped Talanah
"Well, I had to carry most of the supplies." Said Aloy gesturing to the big satchel of food she had brought for them to share.
"Pretty sure the Sunhawk can always delegate carrying supplies to her Thrush." She teased only carrying two large towels and a bedroll for the two of them to share.
"Oh, can she? Or does the great and mighty Sunhawk simply not have the strength to carry a single satchel of food? Wouldn't want to have to tell the lodge that. I wonder what all the other hunters would make of it?" Aloy teased back
"You win Thrush. Give it here Aloy." Thinking "By the sun! I love her!"
"I've been really looking forward to our beach picnic Aloy." Announced Talanah. It would be really good to spend some time together just the two of them.
It was a perfect day for it the sun was shining in a cloudless sky. The wind was calm, and the heat was just right.
"Me too." agreed Aloy "Time to change I think my blazon will be a bit stuffy and there are no machines down here. I checked."
They changed stripping naked in front of each other Talanah snuck a peek at her Aloy." My girlfriend is so gorgeous" She thought struck by her beauty
They had chosen these outfits from the fossilised shopping mall they had found together.
They were still sealed inside their airtight packaging They ripped them open and got into the outfits they'd picked out. They had looted these outfits from a ruin of the Old Ones specifically for the beach. Items the ancients might have worn. That they thought looked good. They had been sealed in plastic for millennia and hadn't rotted.
Both Fully dressed now they turned and faced each other.
Aloy gawped at Talanah. She was dressed in a bright blue baggy Hawaiian shirt that she had left open to show off her stunning perfect tan body and underneath a black bikini that matched her luscious hair.
Talanah ogled her girlfriend right back her outfit looked very exotic and fresh not something shed ever seen Aloy (or anyone for that matter) in before.
Aloy had a fashionable colourful short sleeve shirt unbuttoned and worn loose over a plain tight white t-shirt that showed off her firm breasts better than Carja silks ever could.
She had put on a pair of frayed cut-off jean booty shorts over her tight ass, her bronze hair shining in the sun. Perfectly complimenting her oh so pale creamy skin.
"She looks so majestic! Such light casual clothes really suit her! she deserves to take some time to relax for once. She is busier than me these days with endless quests to take care of. "Thought Talanah.
"How do I look?" Asked Aloy.
"You look incredible almost as good as me." She complimented. "But just one final touch."
Tugging the hem of her T-shirt up Talanah improved Aloys outfit for her by knotting her t-shirt above her midriff. So Aloy was now showing off her toned abs and the sexy wrinkle of her navel.
Aloy still didn't appreciate the beauty of her body, so Talanah had to do it for her.
Talanah was the bold dresser not her, but Aloy liked her new outfit the way her beloved girlfriend had styled it for her.
"There you look even better now praised." Talanah "Like a true Carja, or Carja royalty even."
"Aww, you're too kind." Talanah leaned in expecting a kiss and was about to slide a hand down Aloys jeans to tease her girlfriend's sex too when Aloy stopped her
"We shouldn't," Aloy told her. "Ikrie will be here soon"
"Huh? Ikrie? I thought it would be just us?"
"My friend Ikrie from Ban-Ur is coming too I thought I told you she would be coming with us."
Talanah remembered Aloy had mentioned meeting Ikrie on her travels. But she had not told her that she would be joining them today. Clearly, Aloy hadn't realised it was meant to be a date though.
(Perhaps she didn't know dates worked being an outcast or what a date actually was)
She was gutted. She had planned to have a romantic afternoon and a romantic picnic followed immediately by romantic sex.
"I promised to take her to a real warm sandy beach. she is used to freezing lakes and iced covered pebble shores Afterall."
"Uh-huh."
Right on cue, they heard the crunch of footsteps And a Banuk wandered into the clearing.
"Good to see you again Aloy of the Nora." greeted Ikrie who was in her usual outfit with the hood down and minus a few inner layers due to the heat. thick blue and yellow furs if she was suffering in the heat, she made no mention of it whatsoever she hadn't had a chance to trade her winter furs for lighter attire yet.
"Talanah This is my friend Ikrie the Banuk. Ikrie this is my girlfriend and hunting partner Talanah Khane Padish the Sunhawk of the Hunters Lodge." Aloy stated proudly.
Hi Ikrie" muttered Talanah.
"So Ikrie ready to see a beach that's actually nice and warm for a change?"
Oh Yes, Aloy, lead the way. It had better be as impressive as you say.
"It will be"
"I'm still sure that the mountains of Ban Ur are a more impressive sight."
"Oh Yeah? I brought my new rebreather too. you wait till you see all the life under the water it's so colourful down there Beats nearly getting frostbite on a frozen lake ice fishing for one single trout.
"Well, we'll see if it does." and she added with a smile. "Besides you only get frostbite if you haven't prepared properly."
Talanah was gutted almost heartbroken she was hoping to have Aloy all to herself for a romantic afternoon followed by romantic sex.
She was very busy with her duties these days (they both were) and she'd been really looking forward to their date. Spending a whole day with just her in the solace of the isolated beach Aloy had found.
These days Hunting with her, training with her and sleeping with her even though they spoke to people (citizens, warriors, lodge members etc) and did their own things, sometimes it had felt like it was just the two of them Hawk and Thrush together against the world. Talanah didn't like this, she had never felt this emotional unease before. Chipping at her usual easy confidence.
She had never been in such a deep relationship her own wellbeing so tied up with another person. She realised now why Hawks and Thrushes were not supposed to lie together.
"Bit late for that though." She thought amused.