There are types of flowers that are edible. I read it somewhere.

[But he only remembered a couple of details about how to tell them from other not-good-to-eat flowers. Hence the intense stare off from earlier.]

Okay, stop me if I'm not understanding this right, but you had a run in with man-eating rodents of some kind?

[Why are other planets so very weird?]

No, I think we can cross that kind off the list. [He glances down.]

You've still got some...um...[He points at Dave's ankle where the stem of one of the flowers is still wound around his ankle.]