Well, shit.
Tal's glare had no effect on the Voidweaver, which ignored him thoroughly and pounced on the poor hanging snake in spite of his muttered threats and curses through the crate. His scowl deepened as the purplish hue began to spread throughout the snake as well, the gentle creature succumbing to the void's influence.
He could have ended the experiment right then and there, thank you, but his tentative timing of the event didn't quite match up with what others had found and when Maea ordered them to do it again he bit his lip and chewed it hard.
As it turned out, he just didn't have it in him to sacrifice another snake for the sake of science.
He snagged a clump of Sweetgrass and headed back to his crate. There was a spider and a snake in it now, but that just meant the whole box was going to have to be torched when they were done. Rather than add to the problem, Tal practiced good environmentalism by reducing, reusing, and recycling what he already had.
And opening the crate's top just far enough to shove the sweetgrass before slamming it closed again and crouching down to count the time it took for the one or both of the predators to make their move on the innocent vegetation.
Tal decides to continue using his crate with the Void Serpent and the Voidweaver Spider, and this time he chucks some Sweetgrass in with them! He's paying particular attention to counting the time of infection this round.
Tal's glare had no effect on the Voidweaver, which ignored him thoroughly and pounced on the poor hanging snake in spite of his muttered threats and curses through the crate. His scowl deepened as the purplish hue began to spread throughout the snake as well, the gentle creature succumbing to the void's influence.
He could have ended the experiment right then and there, thank you, but his tentative timing of the event didn't quite match up with what others had found and when Maea ordered them to do it again he bit his lip and chewed it hard.
As it turned out, he just didn't have it in him to sacrifice another snake for the sake of science.
He snagged a clump of Sweetgrass and headed back to his crate. There was a spider and a snake in it now, but that just meant the whole box was going to have to be torched when they were done. Rather than add to the problem, Tal practiced good environmentalism by reducing, reusing, and recycling what he already had.
And opening the crate's top just far enough to shove the sweetgrass before slamming it closed again and crouching down to count the time it took for the one or both of the predators to make their move on the innocent vegetation.
Tal decides to continue using his crate with the Void Serpent and the Voidweaver Spider, and this time he chucks some Sweetgrass in with them! He's paying particular attention to counting the time of infection this round.
