Smothered

He nodded in agreement. They sure were, and he had no qualms about breaking as many of the crystals as were necessary just to see if they all did the same thing. As the girl got the idea to copy his tactic, he turned his attention back to the crystal he had originally cracked and he gave it another whack to finish the job. It fell to the ground with a thud, though it sounded lighter than he thought it would. Huh...interesting. "Mine's bigger than yours." He looked up, staring at her for a moment as he "psshed" her. "Yeah well you wouldn't have been able to get it without my help, so there!" He stated with a nod.

He bent down to examine his crystal, noting how rapidly the pulsing glow seemed to get. And with each pulse, he swore there was a wave of some sort of sickly sweet scent wafting off of it, but he wasn't sure. "Hey you, girl with the teeth. Do you smell that?" He questioned while glancing over at her crystal.