"Should I do another one like that?"

"Yeah, probably, or we can just take turns trying it."

Lucien can get to carving his own.

Eventually she can walk up to a catfish slow and leisurely, barefoot with her jean cuffs turned up, and attempt to, after lulling it into a false sense of security, stab it.

This definitely doesn't work the first few times, but maybe she's getting better?

Ugh. She'll try ten times and then give up and start building a funnel thing.

Lucien manages to catch one after a while more of trying.

"I think I got lucky."

"You almost certainly have better gross motor skills than I do, I walk with a cane, remember?" Weave weave.

"Oh, yes."

Lucien has not forgotten that she has a cane.

Weave weave weave. "Start deboning it and we can have sashimi and see if we like it."

"Yes ma'am," and he can set to work deboning it as best he can on a nearby rock that seems smooth enough for the purpose.

It tastes mild: a bit sweet and a bit fishy.

"Okay. Sashimi and bananas. I can live with that."

"Should we find a supply of fresh water too?"

"Yeah, is that doable for you?"

"Probably?"

He can determine a direction they can go in to find what turns out to be a pond neighboring the beach. 

She has her half-empty iced tea bottle to drain and refill.

Lucien has an aluminum water bottle of his own.

Are there fish in the pond too?

Little tiny ones, and some sort of marine slugs near the bottom.

If the catfish weren't edible she'd be psyching herself up to learn to like escargot, but as it is she is not. "These look too small to be easily processed but the sea is pretty shallow and traversible, I'll put the trap in there."

Nod nod.

"Should we trying to finding a safer place to sleep for tonight?"

"Maybe. Of course anywhere could have the same problem."

"I can check for what sort of areas have that problem?"

"...yeah, there's probably enough bananishes for that."

It will take him a several tries, and he'll need to eat quite a bit afterwards, but he can eventually conclude that some weirdly warm rockier areas without trees are safer than the forest (mildly unsafe) and the beach (incredibly unsafe).