"Octopus meatballs?"
Erica froze. "You can't be thinking of stuffing the entire octopus into a single meatball, are you?"
"What an imagination," Lin Chen chuckled. "I *could* stuff it in, but could you even bite through it?"
"If you can stuff it, I can bite it."
"If you can bite it, I can stuff it."
"Alright then, let's see you try! I'd love to see what a meatball stuffed with an entire giant octopus looks like!"
"Oh, come on. It would be impossible to eat. I was just teasing you."
Lin Chen retrieved seven or eight fist-sized potatoes from the cave. He looked around but found no leftover bamboo sections.
"We're out of bamboo. I'll go cut some more."
"Wait, wait," Erica stopped him. "Even if you could manage to chop it down, you wouldn't be able to carry it back in your condition. Let me go instead."
"And you think *your* hand is any better? We're two of a kind right now. The recoil from chopping bamboo would be enough to make your wound..."
