Precious Little

Terence goes back to his tent with his three tadpole children, in their bottle.

In or out? asks Terence.

The tadpole children don't answer.

Terence leaves the bottle outside and goes in.

He has gone in head first, which is not the best way.

He comes back out, knocking over the bottle.

The lid has not been screwed on tight.

Water starts dripping out of the bottle. 

The three tadpole children try to alert Terence.

Hey-Hey-Hey!

But Terence has gone back inside, feet first this time.

What did he go in for?

He can't remember. 

The pobblebonk has gone.

The Kroombit tinker is with Gaius.

But there was someone else....

Greedy! What happened to her? Where was she when he last saw her?

He pokes his head out of the tent, and sees the water draining out of his bottle of children.

Yikes! 

He sets the bottle upright and screws the lid back on tight.

But now the three tadpole children only have half a bottle of water to swim in.

That might not be enough. 

What happens when their legs grow?

Their heads will stick out and they'll die, or will they?

Terence realises he doesn't know much about tadpoles. 

Frogs yes, after all he's on the frog team, but not tadpoles.

Maybe they know?

He opens the lid and shouts in.

Do you guys need more water?

The children nod vigorously. Yes we do. Creek water please.

Nodding conveys a yes, but not the rest of the answer.

Terence picks up the bottle and heads for Arthur's tent.

Does he mean to replace the children's water with springwater?

There'll be precious little nutrition for tadpoles in that.