Okay, that instruction was unneeded. But instead of commenting on it, Ström just swiftly pulled his arm from the hole that was now loosening and placed the pod in the now boiling water. Whew. Pod number two, coming right up.

He silently and quickly grabbed the vines of another snargaluff and plunged his hand in. And received another whacking with vines. Seriously, making teens work with such violent plants. It was a head shaker.