[ Now that he's actually getting a good look at her, not in the middle of latching himself onto a tunnel trying to get his sword away from its suck. She must be nearly a foot shorter than him, give or take some centimeters, and he's impressed she managed to keep her footing so well before. Sure, they still got sucked into the tube, but at least they went with the sword. That's the thing that really matters.
He carefully rests the sword on the leaves beside him as he sits upright, haphazardly swiping a this thick mane of black hair to get all the leaves out of it. Which doesn't work so well—there are still plenty of them sticking out of his hair at odd angles. ]
I owe you a debt. I don't know if I would have found this sword again if it got sucked away from me.
[ There are plenty of tubes sucking up leaves—and he could probably spend days digging through them and not find it. ]
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[ Now that he's actually getting a good look at her, not in the middle of latching himself onto a tunnel trying to get his sword away from its suck. She must be nearly a foot shorter than him, give or take some centimeters, and he's impressed she managed to keep her footing so well before. Sure, they still got sucked into the tube, but at least they went with the sword. That's the thing that really matters.
He carefully rests the sword on the leaves beside him as he sits upright, haphazardly swiping a this thick mane of black hair to get all the leaves out of it. Which doesn't work so well—there are still plenty of them sticking out of his hair at odd angles. ]
I owe you a debt. I don't know if I would have found this sword again if it got sucked away from me.
[ There are plenty of tubes sucking up leaves—and he could probably spend days digging through them and not find it. ]