"You might need to eat more often if you can't eat much at once."

"I'm not hungry between meals either."

"Well, you're clearly small for your age and you clearly don't eat enough, so you might not be able to notice when you're hungry. Eat more than you feel like eating and see if you feel better."

She tries it. She reports feeling worse.

Mile makes a face at this. "Worse how?"

"...like I ate too much. Maybe you can tell everyone that I am very smart for my size instead of very small for my smartness."

"I can. It won't work if you don't grow."

"I will probably grow eventually!"

"Many people do and you've obviously made it through your first year, at any rate." Mile clicks her tongue. "Some people are made sick by certain foods. I wonder if you have that problem, maybe with everything you've tried yet so you'd have no way to tell 'sick' from 'full'."

"I don't think any of the things that seem like food to me are making me sick but I guess I wouldn't know. I could try not eating for a couple days and see what happens."

Mile looks heavenward and bites her lip. She sighs. "You could try it. Or you could try eating one thing at a time for a while, see if you feel different eating different things."

Shrug. "Okay."