He does not sleep well but they couldn't make more progress in the night anyway.

There are no satellites visible in the sky.

The stars look really incredible, though.

Hooray.

The next day a wagon pulled by a horse and driven by a woman trots by. They are, via pantomime, offered rides. The woman doesn't seem concerned about the baby or surprised that it's naked or anything.

...they would be delighted to accept rides! Does she have anything for food for the baby.

She's got water, that's all she's got that a baby can handle.

She's not looking at them in a manner that suggests she's expecting someone to take the baby. He mentions this to Shasali. "Been wondering if they had some kind of near-extinction catastrophe. The low population density but sophisticated robots - might not have population controls at all, if they're trying to get back to the size for a real industrial civilization..."

"But then why leave her on a hillside naked -"

"I have no idea. 

We could pick a name, if we're going to get to keep her."

"We," says Shasali.

"I know of successful custody arrangments between people who seriously considered killing each other, it's achievable."

"Kalatha."

Giggle. "All right."

Shasali pets Kalatha.

"I know people who have a blue name picked out for their daughter. Most of them are blue, though."

"I wasn't going to have any."

"Yeah."

Pet pet. Humming.

Aitim asks their driver for her name.

She doesn't understand the question until a considerable amount of time has been invested into gesturing but eventually points at herself and says "Witwa."

He is so thrilled about this. "Aitim. Shasali. Kalatha."

She seems a little puzzled about the baby having a name but boops her nose and says "Meha, Kalatha!"

He can't tell if it's puzzled the baby has a name or puzzled by something about the name but she can pronounce it fine so maybe the former. Or maybe it's an out of caste name for whatever caste they are parsing him and Shasali as.

And there are more farmhouses and then there's a walled city.

A walled city. "Don't think there was a disaster after all."