You are correct in that they did come to fruition seemingly out of nowhere. El Minha in particular was jarring - or so I thought.

[She plucks a fish from the end of her spear with no small bit of grimacing.]

Struxta has some small bit of warning at the very least, though even that much was brief.

[She muses a moment on the fish in her hand before looking for some basket or other to put it in for now.]

Kathashun did give us a bit of a hint though, did he not? Something about the princess?