"...Is this the real reason you picked me to go with you?" Nessa judgementally looked at Zach out of the corner of her eye as he sat on top of her Millipede.
"I told you, I'm sorting the samples," Zach said while doing anything but sorting the flowers, grasses, herbs, roots, and plants that had been contaminated by the underworld energy leaking out of the ground and flowing through the air and streams.
Zach raised his sunglasses, opened his eyes, and craned his neck to look at Nessa.
"Y'know, there's place for you up here, too."
"That's my familiar!" Nessa burst out. She couldn't believe Zach was treating her Snakelong Millipede like it was his.
Zach shrugged.
"I'm fine. I prefer walking."
