I can't seem to find the escape hatch, but I'm sick of sitting tight

Preening and puffing her chest out a bit at Jouko’s praise, Iskra took a moment to enjoy that small ego boost. Hah, so she could get this stupid plant thing down after all! Good, cause otherwise she was not going to have a fun time at all. ”Thank goodness, I thought we’d never find them!”

’We’ve only been looking for a little while…’

”Yeah, well you looked fed up with searching too!” she huffed indignantly. Jouko decided then to back off with a muttered apology as he realized he had no leg to stand on since she was entirely correct.

’Okay, okay. Now we're gonna dig 'em up. Be careful of the roots, we want them, so dig slow and carefully,’ Jouko instructed, earning a serious nod from Iskra as they both set to work. It wasn’t super difficult work, really, but she felt like it was taking a while to get the root all dug up, so she started speeding up and managed to get a sharp, ’Careful!’ from Jouko as he narrowed his eyes at her and she sheepishly ducked her head and continued, digging all around the plant to try and unearth as much of it as possible before she actually tried to remove it from the soil.