[ She is not making this easy on him, oh goodness, and he laughs one of those "I cannot believe what is happening and I am very uncomfortable" kind of laughs as he makes doubly certain not to let her wander off until she's back in town. ]

I have no idea. There's probably someone back in town who would know, since they've lived here their whole lives.

[ But now that he thinks about it, it's a good question. If they're a good source of meat and they have big families and reproduce a lot, they might be like livestock. Replenishing horrible scorpion-clawed monsters with human faces and sharp teeth. Swarming like mosquitoes.

He just sighs and tries to repress that notion. They can't get back to town soon enough. At least, not until he realizes... ]

Y'know, I still don't know your name.