[Jeez, all of this "and my blade" business, like everyone's Aragorn all of the sudden. Sarah leans a little too close to the amber, brow furrowed.]

We're really rushing to kill it. [she chews on her lower lip] I mean-- [hastily] it's awful that it almost ate you. But we are in the middle of a forest. There are lots of snakes in a forest. [Right? She definitely read that somewhere.] If we leave it alone, won't it just decide there's no food and go away?