The craft store where Anda[A] works is closed for the summer solstice, so A is at the park, sitting on a picnic blanket with A's back to a tree and embroidering geometric designs on one of A's shirts (not the one A is wearing). A was hoping to finish this cuff before sunset, but it's warm and there's a soft breeze blowing and there's really no rush, is there, so once he gets to a good stopping point A folds up the shirt and lies down on the blanket for a nap. What a lovely day it is to be alive.
Anda[A] eats some more nuts and then inquires as to what sleeping locations Neidurah has available.
She consults a piece of fabric from her pocket before answering. "The purple, orange, red, and green ones are empty tonight. Take your pick; they're all the same." Sheeppet. "And I'll be in that one if anything comes up." She points to the biggest tent, one in neutral earth tones.
The purple tent is mostly unembroidered but has some beading on the bottom edge and around the door flap and some simple designs in spines every so often. There's no internal support structure but it does have a hammock, a small water skin, and a rug made out of braided scraps of fabric.
Anda takes a while to fall asleep, but eventually manages, curled up in the hammock and under the picnic blanket.
And in the morning (when A's back to being only as disoriented as A was yesterday), it's time to go to the city!
When A steps out of the tent it becomes immediately clear that there was some kind of magic climate control going on inside. It's definitely not unbearable out in the morning sun but there is a very noticeable step up in temperature.
Neidura has some sheep chores to do before they can leave, and she detours to have a chat with one of the campers - there's only one translation artefact around so the discussion is half incomprehensible and mostly inaudible besides, but from what Anda can pick up it seems to be something about emergency protocols. She walks away from the conversation with a little basket full of mixed berries she didn't have at the start.
"Breakfast," she offers, along with the bag of nuts from last night and a smaller sack of dried fruits, once they're back on the car.
"Thank you."
Blargh, temperatures. Also A really hopes the city will have opportunities to shower. There are rentable showers[B] at home but A's never needed to use one and has heard B are kind of ass. Being homeless in another world is definitely ass.
At least there's fruit and nuts. Everything's better with fruit and nuts!
The temperatures get less blargh, or at least don't continue to get more blargh as the sun rises further, once they've gone a ways on the carpet. It's a little too comfortable to just be the breeze from carrying on at a decent clip. Netra doesn't initiate conversation until a colorful dot appears over one of the dunes, half an hour into the ride. She passes Anda a bead on a necklace-length wool string. "Once you get a shell you can use this to talk to me. Let me know if you make it back to your world."