[ But a plant with a mouth on it! How are they supposed to view it as nothing more than vegetation when the slightest bump might send it screaming again? It's too much like a real baby, Cain's not ready for this responsibility!
And on second thought, he's also not entirely sure he's ready to carve the thing up into itty bitty pieces.
He stares at the knife with dread now that he's faced with the very real prospect of having to open the bundle and have the thing screaming bloody murder while he, well, murders it. ]
Ah... Or maybe we could just wrap it up a bit more securely?
[ They don't need to really knife their child, right? Right? ]
[ The face he makes, the expression is something that she doesn't expect from him and it causes her to pause with disbelief. Drawing a silent breath, allowing the momentary pause to end, she slowly brings the knife down. ]
I get what you mean, I do, but if you're serious about not slicing it up that means you'll have to be carrying it like that. And I dunno if our employer wants to have to deal with their crying, either...
But they weren't very specific in the first place.
[ That last bit is said with a sickly sweet smile, despite her having the worst intentions possible. That were mild, admittedly, but that poor person who hired them both was going to have to face the sweet music of root crying. ]
[ Cain's shoulders slump with relief. He hadn't thought Leanne would make him, but... well, she might have teased him about it. But since she didn't, he gives her a brilliant smile and makes a show of carefully wrapping the cloth a bit tighter around the root. ]
We don't need too many, so we should have enough room to wrap them all up. Do you want to dig or bundle?
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And on second thought, he's also not entirely sure he's ready to carve the thing up into itty bitty pieces.
He stares at the knife with dread now that he's faced with the very real prospect of having to open the bundle and have the thing screaming bloody murder while he, well, murders it. ]
Ah... Or maybe we could just wrap it up a bit more securely?
[ They don't need to really knife their child, right? Right? ]
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[ The face he makes, the expression is something that she doesn't expect from him and it causes her to pause with disbelief. Drawing a silent breath, allowing the momentary pause to end, she slowly brings the knife down. ]
That's... not our baby. Or a baby in general.
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[ He knows that! It's just a vegetable. A very loud vegetable that screams horrible bloody murder...
But it's still just a plant!
Even if he's feeling a little sorry for it... ]
It's just... well, it's a bit hard to want to stab it when it sounds like that.
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I get what you mean, I do, but if you're serious about not slicing it up that means you'll have to be carrying it like that. And I dunno if our employer wants to have to deal with their crying, either...
But they weren't very specific in the first place.
[ That last bit is said with a sickly sweet smile, despite her having the worst intentions possible. That were mild, admittedly, but that poor person who hired them both was going to have to face the sweet music of root crying. ]
Just make sure to hold it tight.
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We don't need too many, so we should have enough room to wrap them all up. Do you want to dig or bundle?