[ How is she supposed to use her words and also her brain while this is happening ]

[ … It should be easy. It would be easy enough, if this was Donnie or Eve. But it's not, it's Aloy, someone she considers a friend, someone new and different and that makes it so very, very … distracting? … something like that. ]

Oh, um, I — if you think we might need to, we can — there's the, the curtains over there? Maybe we could duck behind one of them. [ There's extra bedroom areas with some token degree of "privacy". ]