It does not torture me or give the Enemy information. 

...all right. I'll wait.

I did not tell you to do that.

Mmhmm. I'm choosing to anyway.

Okay.

Soup first, hunting after, I think, unless you'd rather not.

That sounds nice to me. He tries to project the appropriate emotion, too.

All right.

Soupmaking.

He tries to fit all the names into the empty places in his head.

She sings quietly to herself. It sounds lonelier than usual, somehow.

Eventually, there's soup.

Thank you.

No problem. Anything else before I go?

I don't think so.

All right.

Hunting! Or, well, 'hunting'. It's really not the same thing when her strategy is 'sneak to within spellcasting range of some poor critter and then deprive it of its head'. Very effective, though; she can take down creatures much larger than a traditional hunting team would be able to safely tackle, like for example this herd of giant deer. She sends their hides home and takes the meat to the ice.

Where it is much appreciated. Thank you. This'll make a tremendous difference for morale even before it makes a difference for our health, and it'll help with that too.

You're very welcome.

Should I send anyone to the jungle while I'm here?

Yes, please, now that we've verified you didn't take the exploratory team to Moringotto I think they want to be put back where they were, and maybe we can send another.

All right. Oaths again, I think, from all of them; I don't have a very good idea of the Enemy's capabilities at all and I'd rather be too careful than not careful enough.

I agree completely.

So they get oaths from the exploratory teams.

How's Maitimo?

About the same. It's hard to tell, sometimes.

Yeah. 

Thank you for rescuing him.

By the time she remembers she's not supposed to hug him she's already halfway to doing it; she doesn't stop herself. You're welcome.

Well, he has no idea she thinks she shouldn't hug him; he hugs her back. He's trembling. We'll make sure the Enemy can never, ever again -

Yeah.

...she's not really letting go, either.

That's okay. She's warm, and it's been cold on the ice, and she rescued Maitimo.