But the only thing your pal seems likely to do is eat me.

We don't even do things together except sometimes eat a meal.

The first thing I want to do when we get to a real city is eat some good food for a change.

"That thing could eat us all if it wanted to!"

But one thing the middle-aged can always do is eat.

I suppose they find things to eat in the water.

Two things, then, at the least ate necessary to make contact possible?

If the things in the darkness don't eat us on the way back.

A man might go hungry for a while, but soon he'd find the things to eat.

It is clear, though, that certain things still eat at him.