No, it's fine, you can stay. Things can wait a day - we are Quendi...

Okay. She hugs him.

You're doing really well.

More singing.

Singing is so good. She sings along, and eventually relaxes.

Good. He kind of wants to go see Maitimo, but it's probably a bad idea.

She might have something to say about that, if he mentions it. Otherwise she will probably continue being a melodious furry barnacle until it's time to make dinner.

He doesn't mention it. He does mention when it's getting near dinnertime - but someone can bring us food -

Thanks, yeah. I still need to cook, though, probably - even if you have broth, Maitimo doesn't eat meat now, it'd have to be vegetarian.

Oh. I can have that done too -

Okay. Hug. Thank you. - nutrition matters, taste doesn't, they pretty much shouldn't bother seasoning it unless someone else is going to be eating it too. Extra calcium if they can do it, crushed eggshells are fine if you happen to have been saving them.

I'll let them know.

Thank you.

And someone brings them dinner a while later.

She thanks them and un-barnacles enough to not be in Findekáno's way while he eats.

Tasty, tasty meat dish. It's pretty obvious she's enjoying that.

Do you need to eat animals? We'd hunt everything in the vicinity to extinction if we did often.

Sort of. We can get by without meat, but we have trouble getting calcium from anything but bones, so we don't usually try to.

Okay. I can let people know to always have that for you.

Thanks. She grins. I have been saving the bones when I've been hunting, though, I'm set for those for a long time.

I'm glad. And we can always find new worlds if we accidentally depopulate these ones of animals, just - I'd feel bad about that.

Yeah... I don't think that's really a risk? I expect I'll get used to eating what you usually eat eventually, aside from the bones and that we do need some vegetables kobolds have a pretty flexible diet.

I mean, it'd be a risk if we were just overzealous about hunting because we're hungry, nothing to do with you.

Yeah, all right.

The extra worlds will help. I haven't been hunting in the jungle yet but there seems to be plenty of game there.

That'll help, yes. And the Sun will help, we can grow plants.

Mmhmm.

I'm not entirely sure how that works, but Maitimo's siblings are trying to grow plants under light from portals, so they can grow more things; I expect it'll work fine and I can set that up for you, too, once we know.

So, plant seeds grow into the same kind of plant, if you bury them in a good spot with light and water. And if you want you can take seeds on purpose and plant them and then get a row of that plant wherever you like, if the conditions are okay for it, so you don't have to travel as far to get food.