"Why not?" Esca says, already dreading the answer. "They are very good eating."

Esca is not quite sure what rice is, and so he can only nod sagaciously with empty confidence. "Your family," he says, thinking. "Do the tribes still live? Which are you from?" He assumes, by 'dads', she means she was adopted into another chieftain's protection. Rare for a woman, but perhaps they have different rules, now.