While waiting for the ten minutes to pass he sat down again and waited checking his watch regularly at first but then leaving it to Léa who was still standing. He wondered why she did not sit down even away from the elf and the cauldron. Whatever made her comfortable, he thought. Silently, he sat waiting for the ten minutes to pass while the wood sorrel boiled in the water.
After ten minutes, he thought to peer at the cauldron to check but she had gone to do so, so he remained on the ground waiting for her to say if the time was enough. And seeing that she had approached the snargaluff , he got up quickly and jogged towards her as she held one of the vines. He braced himself and grabbed another one just as a third stuck out in the air and whipped around. Luckily, he had seen it coming or at least expected it so Sébastien ducked his head and tried to avoid it as possible while his other arm dived into a small hole that tightened around his forearm as he twisted his arm and flexed his fingers underground trying to get hold of the pod.
With his eyes squinted and teeth gritted for a little period of time and with the help of Léa he managed to pull out his arm clutching in his palm the pod. He quickly tossed it into the cauldron before yanking at another's plants' vines trying to hold down as many as he could leaving the next pod for Léa to retrieve hoping she could get her arm down and out the hole as he wrestled the crazy vines.
__________________  |