"Because it's trying to eat you?" He can still spare a moment to shoot her a look of utter confusion. Why wouldn't he? They're all in this together. Sure, maybe she's new and still adjusting to what it is to have to work in a group out of necessity, but the idea of someone trying to help can't be that foreign by default, can it?

Maybe she's just decided to cut to the chase - leap to the part where someone only helps because they want something out of it.

At least she has a pole weapon. He swaps his hatchet for his spear and starts mimicking her, jabbing at the spindlank to start luring it toward the water, and not a moment too soon - some of the grass beneath it has begun to smoke ominously.