Treasure Hunting for the feast

Nico shakes his head, watching it loosen the sack.  Huffing he has no choice but to dig at the clay more.  One eye is ever constantly on eye on the alligator.  He doesn’t notice when his two bird friends land in the branches.  For once they don’t dare talk.  Nico is already in a horrible situation and they don’t dare distract him. For that matter, the birds see little they can do to help.

Nico grabs the strap again after a moment, yanking and ripping it free of the soil.  Rushing away from the two he dumps its contents on the ground.  Several items are in it but he doesn’t bother to focus on what exactly.  Instead, he rushes back in, the opposite direction and grabs what turns out to be some small glass with green powder in it that had been lying on the ground, along with a necklace.  These are rushed back to where he left the sack.

Looking back to Cal, he calls out, “Ok beat it!”As if to help Nico runs back toward the alligator.  He doesn’t get as close but instead starts digging again but this time it's to kick soil at the alligator's face, hoping to distract it or even make it close its eyes for half a second so Jack can get some distance.  The alligator did pause its attack on Jack to take a step closer to Nico who jumped quickly much farther away than the alligator had come towards him.  

"Niko"