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"I have seen it," he said, "the great loneliness that lies ahead of you on the path you have to take. It cannot be avoided, but it can be met."
"You could come west with me," Aloy said. "You could help me like you did before."
Aratak grimaced a smile, "I am neither young nor honorless, Aloy. My time for wandering has passed and will not come again."
When Aloy returns to the Cut to speak with CYAN about questions of engineering and to bide her time before a departure into the West that she knows must come, she fails to anticipate the deeper continuities and solidarities that her curiosity might reveal not only between herself and the Old Ones, but between herself and Aratak.