She's quiet a moment while she chews. Let it never be said that she doesn't appreciate him doing that. "I know and that's why I'm going to help with the remaining corpses." She bumps her shoulder against his in a show of solidarity.

They'd also only ever eaten in fairly large groups before. The amount food they had on hand for two of them would be next to nothing if they had Cielo, Heat, or leader with them. But they couldn't very well take the whole core of the tribe out into the world and leave the rest on their own. Any number of things could happen that they don't want to have happen in such a situation.

"We can try it and find out. If it goes bad we'll know better for the future." They just had to add preserving food to their ever growing list of skills and processes to research and learn if they were going to survive long term on the island. They could probably enlist a few tribe members to help them figure out how well preserved meat would satisfy their hunger. She'd be on hand in case they came down with aches as a result of course.