"Sure." It's an easy way to move away from explanations like except I was sort of kidnapped at home or whatever else she might be able to come up with on the spot. (Anything other than and now I'm never leaving Barrayar would do.) "Or Daryl can, when he's better. He'll show you anything you want to know about the wilderness."

Beth pauses a moment, stirring up her food idly. "All the camping and--and scavenging and hunting and stuff, you get used to it. But it's easier when you know how to do it yourself."

Wash comes from a place with a lot more in the way of technology, and he's only passingly familiar with the animals here. He might need the reassurance.