She eats the lemonfish, inspects the pile, and discovers a blobby little red thing. "I think it might be cherry," she says. "Either that or it is a red fish that is unrelatedly shaped sort of like a butt." She offers Ari the buttfish.

"...I think it's supposed to be a blobfish?"

He consumes it. "Again, delightful."

"Well now I want to try one and see what it tastes like."

She investigates her dwindling heap of sea creatures, but can't find another red buttfish anywhere. Hmm. A dilemma.

She approaches the counter again. "Hello, I would like another Gummy Sea Creatures Special, please. It is for science."

The person at the counter smiles. "Certainly! There's no need to watch what you eat anymore, after all!"

They collect her another Gummy Sea Creatures Special. This one has a cherry blobfish on top, speared directly through its center of mass by the trident.

Hmm. Now she has two cups and that is also the number of hands she has and she cannot really deploy a trident effectively under these circumstances.

She turns back to Ari. "I may need you to feed me the cherry buttfish," she says gravely. "For science."

Ari will absolutely do this.

After using it to boop her nose.

Squeak!! "Thapf my noeff!!" she says around a mouthful of gummy.

"And it, like you, is adorable. And I felt the need to boop it. With the blobfish."

Om nom nom. "Okay, I concede that you have a fair and reasonable point."