"I suppose so," the alien followed along easily enough, watched AJ carve up the vine with a sort of veiled interest. He sidled up next to her before sitting down again, taking a length of the thick vegetation in his ochre-colored hands. The alien looked it over briefly, and then made a face as he imagined jabbing his finger into this to try and suck some hydration out. They really were scraping the bottom of the barrel here, weren't they?

Well. It was about survival, like he had said earlier. Algidus shifted one of his fingers into a long, thick needle and then jabbed it right into that fleshy bark, shifting his finger around as he tested it for similar acidic properties. Nothing to report there which was at least a relief. "Rain on this damn planet can't come too soon," he grumbled. Then his head cocked up as if he'd just had a thought. "...You don't think that will be acidic too, do you? Surely the plant life is all too lush for such a thing?"