They're also covered with the strange bone spikes or whatever those are. They have something like that in Rainier's world - it means they carry a highly infectious disease back home. These ones, thankfully, seem safe. That was a scary few days as he waited to learn via trial and error.

"Sounds like a solid plan." He doesn't ask why she has a problem with the food they're provided. Pure stubbornness seems perfectly reasonable to him.