Hey, sun, isn't your job supposed to be brightening up the atmosphere? What gives??

It is, at least, less claustrophobic feeling outside! Not that these buildings are particularly tiny, but something about being enclosed with that heavy atmosphere feels extra oppressive. With the sky nice and open like this, that's one stifling element out of the way.

Once the area's been checked and cleared for a suitable lunch spot, free of skittish lizards as well as treacherous spiders, Shinji carefully makes his way to the designated lunch-spot. A soft, 'Thank you' is offered up as he takes the bento, and... oh, wow, it's really hitting him very suddenly that, hey! It's kind of been a long time since he's had a meal that he himself hasn't had at least a hand in preparing! The thought washes over him in a really, really weird wave of melancholy, that he promptly does his best to ignore.

"It's a totally different feeling than the rest of the city," a little spooky in its ruined glory! What a contrast between this and the rest of Havenwell, just a stone's throw away. "If something like this happens again, I wonder if anything farther out there would be salvageable...?"