I'll be fine. You know it takes more than a little scratch to keep me down.
[Never mind that this was more than a little scratch. So long as she wasn't being eaten by a plant still, that was good enough for her.
Not that her hand didn't sting a little but since when had she not played down how badly she was hurt.
She did step away, then, recovered enough at least to want to push beyond this particular incident.]
Now the plant, that might need a little more time to recover. Maybe they can take that as a warning for letting greed get the better of them.
[Even if they were being well-paid for this job, Shalimar had to wonder at the sense of collecting something at a point where the something being collected from was this dangerous.]
(that's okay! Hope things are getting back under control for you)
[Never mind that this was more than a little scratch. So long as she wasn't being eaten by a plant still, that was good enough for her.
Not that her hand didn't sting a little but since when had she not played down how badly she was hurt.
She did step away, then, recovered enough at least to want to push beyond this particular incident.]
Now the plant, that might need a little more time to recover. Maybe they can take that as a warning for letting greed get the better of them.
[Even if they were being well-paid for this job, Shalimar had to wonder at the sense of collecting something at a point where the something being collected from was this dangerous.]