He hesitates. I'll make sure it gets to someone who's hungry.

If there's any left over, sure. Are your siblings around?

Who are you looking for?

Whoever needs the reminder that meals are important, she says lightly.

We've been doing half-rations because we can't grow our own food yet. Now that there's a Sun things should get better.

All right. She puts the bowl on a nearby table. Anything else while I'm here?

More experiments - and he has a list.

She can do experiments. She snacks on a couple of eggs in between.

He takes one, too, after watching her a while.

Good. Not that she's going to comment about it. Little smile, maybe. Experiments!

It is a productive day.

Well, morning. She has to go hunt and stuff.

He is sufficiently absorbed by their results to not even be bothered when she leaves.

Probably for the best.

She stops by the cave for lunch, first.

Hey! 

Hey. Slow progress, but progress; also some more experiments, a couple interesting details worked out but nothing especially useful.

Thank you anyway. The day-to-day may look slow but it'll make so much difference in the long run.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that. Does mean I have to be more careful to make sure I don't do anything unsustainable, but I don't have a problem with it.

What'd be unsustainable for you?

Foodwise, I mean. I gave Findekáno's host a lot of what I had in my pantry, on the assumption that I'd be able to gather things to replace it from the jungle, but I haven't worked out what plants from there are safe yet so I haven't gotten started on actually doing that. We're not in danger from it, and I can spare enough for a couple days of meals for your siblings, but I shouldn't do much more than that if it's going to be actual meals. But it'll work almost as well to bring them eggs and things that I know are safe and I can just go gather every morning. And it seems like that'll work better for them anyway, as it turns out.

That's very generous of you, thank you.

I mean, I'd feel pretty awful about hoarding food when other people need it.

Taking care of yourself is important too, though. 

There's a saying about setting yourself on fire to keep others warm but given her history he probably shouldn't mention it.

...yes.

Yeah, that's why I didn't just give them everything but what we immediately needed. Chief's work, but I've had to get used to that.

Seems like you have the skills for it.