"Indeed," Hadama agreed soberly with Noah's admonition to avoid physical contact. Even within the protection of the terrarium and its carrier-box, the mermanta was not looking forward to transporting the plants back to Torchline and having them so near to himself even for the short time his Aquaportation would require.
He held back and out of the way as Noah moved around the clump with his spear, marking out a good section of the corrupted blossoms to fit in the terrarium. Once the spear had done its work in freeing the plants from the permafrost the merman raised himself up on a pillar of water to get a better angle with his trident as he reached out with the long handle and pushed the triple tines into the channel the sunspear had cut, then levered the weapon beneath the clump. He waited for Noah to get into position with his spear again to steady their burden before carefully shifting the flowers towards the terrarium like Caido's most dangerous variant of an egg-and-spoon race.
It took both weapons and several near-drops to finagle the foliage into the terrarium at the ends of their weapons, and the mermanta was tense as a wire with concentration as the clump of permafrost and its wicked inhabitants finally fell the last few inches into its new home. Only then did Hadama's jaw relax so he could nod gratefully to Noah. "Thank you. The rest, we can destroy." The fewer void-touched plants and animals the better as far as he was concerned.
He held back and out of the way as Noah moved around the clump with his spear, marking out a good section of the corrupted blossoms to fit in the terrarium. Once the spear had done its work in freeing the plants from the permafrost the merman raised himself up on a pillar of water to get a better angle with his trident as he reached out with the long handle and pushed the triple tines into the channel the sunspear had cut, then levered the weapon beneath the clump. He waited for Noah to get into position with his spear again to steady their burden before carefully shifting the flowers towards the terrarium like Caido's most dangerous variant of an egg-and-spoon race.
It took both weapons and several near-drops to finagle the foliage into the terrarium at the ends of their weapons, and the mermanta was tense as a wire with concentration as the clump of permafrost and its wicked inhabitants finally fell the last few inches into its new home. Only then did Hadama's jaw relax so he could nod gratefully to Noah. "Thank you. The rest, we can destroy." The fewer void-touched plants and animals the better as far as he was concerned.
