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Lucien and Bell in Eclipse, take 2
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She manages to get back to sleep and mumbles only very softly and infrequently around the sock.

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Lucien watches sunrise as best he can lying down - its still gorgeous.

[I've heard a couple of smaller animal sounds since earlier but nothing large, probably it's safe to go out and look for plausible food?]

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"Telepathy is not very calorie-costly but it's still at all," she murmurs. "By all means let's look for food."

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They can find some bright red berries with some searching, and a bit farther afield, where the ground starts getting sandier, what look like banana bundles if all the banana's were overlapping just enough to be one large contiguous fruit. 

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"I'm so suspicious of those berries. The bananalikes are easier to get in large amounts... how much is it going to cost you to find out if they're nutritious?"

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"A moderate amount if I phrase it as whether it's been digested by repeatedly by creatures similar than us, I think? I can ask a dozen questions like that without getting too hungry."

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"...you're the expert on how to phrase it but does this fail informatively if no creatures on this planet are similar to us?"

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"I'd get a null result from that which would be different from the negative result of there are creatures like us that ate these but they didn't do so repeatedly." 

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"Okay. I know... more than zero... about fishing, so we maybe want to also look for fish and construct a fish trap, but let's start with the bananas."

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And...

"Eaten extremely often by creatures fairly similar to us."

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"Do you want to test it first or shall I?"

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"I can."

Pealing it reveals... basically exactly what you'd expect. Overlapping contiguous bananalike substance.

"Well. It also tastes like a banana, I can report. Maybe a little more sour."

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"Watch out for seeds, on our planet we domesticated those away." Banana tasting for Isabella.

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Tastes as advertised! There are indeed some seeds once they get closer to the center of the cluster.

"Probably we should set-up fish traps so we don't just have this? Though I can check a lot of other vegetation for edibility now that we have at least one form of calories."

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"Bananas aren't exactly high density calories but yeah. Fish trap is a good idea."

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"I am suspicious given the vegetation and the sand that if we keep going in this direction we'll eventually find a beach - would that be a good place for fish traps?"

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"A stream would be better for the kind I know how to do but if there is one we can find it walking the coast."

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Lucien nods.

Th density of bananish trees increases until they happen upon a beach! The water is absurdly clear and shallow enough they could walk for at least several dozen yards. The gentle waves in the distance occasionally reflect light in a similar pattern to the sunsets, glowing with repeating gradients of magenta and red. 

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But are there any fish in the ecosystem, is the question.

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There are shells, so presumably some sort of life. If they search for a while they will spot what look like catfish with speckled beige scales that blend in with the seafloor. 

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"Are those things food?" she asks, pointing out a catfish.

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"Often for creatures vaguely similar to us, and less often for creatures more similar but not never." Lucien reports.

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"...honestly they don't look like they move super fast, we might not even need a trap, maybe we can spearfish." Is there a stick she can sharpen handy.

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They can get one that's fallen from a nearby bananish tree. 

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She breaks off an end and starts picking at the splinters to get it pointy.

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