Yeah, I could eat...and that's not just an invitation for oral this time.

You nod to Kate's offer of food and offer to help her get things set up as she starts digging through her fridge for something she could cook up. You end up setting the table (as cooking is not necessarily your strong point...unless everybody wants their meal done well-done, all the way down to the salad) and Kate finds something to prepare. It's a small mammalian creature native to Hestian Beta that she says is similar to a Terran rabbit. You've had rabbit once before and you thought it was all right, but, really, you weren't picky. As long as it wasn't moving around on your plate when you were served (which had happened once or twice in your time around the universe), it was all good.

Chloe, curious and bored with sitting on the couch, comes to help you set the table and she takes to the task happily and cheerfully. She wrinkles her nose at the scent of Kate grilling up the fillets of meat, though, and pauses in her work to look up to you with a frown. "I don't like how that smells, Master. What is it?"

"Huh? Oh, well, that's what we're goin' to eat. It's meat...oh, wait. Huh. Guess I never thought 'bout whether you're a vegetarian or somethin'...wait, wouldn't that be cannibalism? Damn, tough to figure out here.", you comment as you tap the fork you'd been about to put down on the table against your bottom lip in thought.

Chloe giggles and shakes her head at you as though you'd said something humorous. "Silly Master! You know what Chloe eats already!", she says and you blink in confusion for a moment until she reaches out and pats her hand against your crotch, "You already fed me loooooots before now, remember?"

You suddenly remember what she'd said about your seed being the only thing she wanted to eat. The only thing that could keep her alive. You'd thought that maybe she was being a little metaphorical or maybe that it had only been the case when she'd had to imprint, but you hadn't really thought she literally only fed from...well, you. But, then, she never had eaten when you sat down to eat on the ship, only sitting watching you...and you'd certainly given her enough opportunity to "feed" from you on the ship (though that had been more for pleasure than anything else).

"Oh...uh, well, then, just let me know when you're hungry again and we'll take care of that somewhere more private, yeah?", you tell her with a pat on her head as you glance over at Kate, noting that she had been listening to the conversation with half an ear and a knowing grin. She was sharp enough to guess what it was that Chloe had been "feeding" on so much from the story you'd told about the Chlorophyte's origins and she seemed amused by it. And maybe...a little turned on, if that flush on her cheek wasn't just from being over a hot grill?

Well, maybe the feeding wouldn't have to be so private, huh? But that would wait until after the meal...probably? Maybe.