Belle, who had just realized what had happened and that she had broken an important plant belonging to the devil she was trying to avoid angering for as long as she was in Nightbrook, nervously bit her lower lip and bent down without bothering that her expensive dress would get dirty and drenched from the wet grass.
She began trying to save the plant by covering its roots with the mud that had poured out of the broken pot, her slightly shaky hands turning clumsy with each word Cordelia panickingly told her about how important the plant was to Rohan. She wished the vampiress would shut up and not make her more nervous!