[ Claire looks somewhat dubious, but she also trusts what he's saying. ]

I suppose the way to any creature's heart is through its stomach. So be sure to give me a good handful of snacks and hopefully I'll still have a hand after feeding.

[ Now she's teasing, and as their ordered selections arrive, she thinks about the animals of Earth. ]

We don't have anything like the animals I've seen other than your standard farm animals, boars, and such. A long time ago we had dinosaurs, millions and millions of years before my lifetime. They were giants, some gentle, some predators. I went with my uncle once to a country where they'd unearthed the largest fossils they'd ever found. We're talking about an animal over forty feet long and fifteen feet high, with teeth that could crush a building.

[ She looks excited as hell about that, Claire loves dinosaurs and went to more than one dig site in her life, though her uncle was more interested in ancient artifacts. ]

I'll show you sometime, in the horizon.