One of the disadvantages of Damien's smoke was that he himself couldn't clearly see if his enemies were being adversely affected or not.
He had not yet gotten full control over his smoke as his mother had over hers. So he could only hope that the plants directly below him were 'coughing' by now.
Damien waited for about a minute and when he thought that the plants were semi-dead, he flapped his wide wings to clear out the smoke.
He wanted to pluck that seedling and fly away as fast as he could.
However, it looked like his luck had run out.
The moment he cleared the smoke, several plants lunged at him as if they were some spiky snakes. It seemed like they were waiting for the smoke to clear out so that they could attack the intruder.
"Hahhhh!!!"
Damien was startled by their aggressiveness and sudden attack.
He flew upward but he was too slow to dodge the attacks from those plants.
Slash!
Slit!
