This is a dumb dream.

A couple of hours later they stop to make camp for the night, as promised.

Anybody selling food?

They do start cooking some sort of stew in a pot and if she looks hungry enough someone will probably give her some.

She hasn't eaten in kind of a while yeah.

Then she'll get a bowl of stew with vegetables and beef.

"Your buyer want live merchandise?" she asks the child traffickers when they don't seem about to feed Eefa.

"Yeah? But they didn't pay for feeding it and it's less agitated this way."

"They may've assumed food was implied as a necessary travel expense in the wanting live merchandise."

"It look dead to you? Had plenty of life when it tried to rob Manny of his keys last night."

"It doesn't look to be in amazing shape." That doesn't feel like a personal pronoun in this language - nice of the dream to give her the language - but she can't tell what sex the kid is, which appears to be information she'd need to be more polite. "Hunger makes one less resilient against everything else."

"Buyers can deal with that - you sure do have a lot of questions."

"You would too if you were this far from home."

"Got any that aren't about our cargo?"

"Sure, what's your name? Why's the weather like that," she points in the general direction of the maelstrom. "Do you have any idea why I've got a superpower now, it's new."

"Hamish. That's the maelstrom, it's been around for centuries and you must be very very lost to not know that."

"And sometimes people who spend time in the maelstrom come back with abilities," he concludes, nervously.

"Do a lot of people duck in and out for that reason?"

"Usually if they'd do that they wouldn't come back at all. Or come back all wrong."

"Wrong?"

"Different."

"In ways other than having powers? Like what?"

"They look different, or can't remember things, or act different."

"...uh-huh." She'll eat her stew without trying to make further conversation.

They don't have a spare tent but they have a blanket and she can sleep on the floor of the wagon though she better not go through their things, there'll be someone around standing watch who would notice.

"Thanks for the blanket." After she's gotten it clean.