"I'll admit I don't know you that well-- but anywhere you go? I think you'll do good there."

"Aw, thanks. I get the same feeling from you, you know? You seem - really sensible."

She blushes. "Uh, thanks."

"No problem at all."

"So, should we start making our way back to civilisation?"

"That works for me, definitely. Your car should be near..."

And carwards! And then back to the city.

Lianne, unfortunately, has nowhere to stay really.

Louie has a couch. That she will sleep on.

Lianne can have the bed.

"I don't want to put you out - I'm seriously fine with the couch."

"It's really no trouble."

They'll concede, since they've been less selfless since the merge, and since they're too tired for an hour of back-and-forth arguing over beds.

Yay, selflessness achieved! (Couch is not the most comfy, but she, like, has an actual home, so it all adds up in the end.)

Lianne is probably gonna flop soon after food.

Food is not fancy (of the 'combine tin of sauce with Stuff, cook until Stuff is edible'), but filling and Louie seems to have decided that 'enough food for a guest' means 'enough food to feed a football team just after a game.'

They appreciate filling over fancy, so.

And dungeon delving is hard enough work they're able to put away a good bit of it.

Food! Hospitality! Yay!

Good companionship, too, once Lianne's settled a bit they turn out to be a good conversation partner. They're staying away from heavy topics for now, mostly commenting on recent media and somewhat wistfully on particularly aesthetic dunjes.

Louie is very interested in dunjes. She's mostly smiling and nodding during the conversations about media: she is, uh, behind on that stuff.

Lianne will pick up on that and shift away - is there any media Louie's a fan of?

She's watched a fair bit of old school sci fi. Practical effects: very good. And she played video games when she was younger, but she's very behind now. Those calls have really dutied, mhhm.

Lianne's not as big into video games, either - they've never played any of that. Too still.

Yeah, that's what got her to drop them after awhile. Like, sure, using your reflexes is fun, but it's more fun in the great outdoors, you know?

Yeah, definitely! Especially if you're getting to move your whole body, or actually talk face-to-face with people - text and voice chat just aren't the same...

No,  they really aren't. She has Amusing Anecdotes From Her Misspent Youth about hilarious mis-readings of tone on the internet.