The options were I want to highkey die for a few hours while this [He gestures to his fish racks.] finishes, or my fish goes bad and I don't eat for the next three days.

[He shrugs. If he thought about it for a few seconds, he'd remember to mention the monsters waiting on the other half of the island, but this is about as helpful as he can manage.]

My ship barely made it through the coral reef, I wasn't about to try and sail it to the other half of the island.