when I look at the stars I feel like myself

Much better reaction than he had expected. He grins a bit now, going right on up to it and letting it reach out and curl a root around his wrist. "It's a podling, not the one we had to deal with. You don't have to worry, the teeth are basically like... the bark on a tree. Right now they're too soft to chew through much more than dried insects, much less skin. And I have several varieties of weed killer that would probably work on it, though I'm not planning on testing any of them until it develops pods of its own."