"My laptop bag I suppose might do, but it's so small, a jar would really be safer...." He looks about, but none of the shops just inside the mall doors here are the kind that might have airtight jars, or even canned food they could empty out. The overwhelming nose issue isn't offering much in the way of helpful leads, either.

"We maybe to make do with what we have, then. Give me a moment." He fishes into his laptop bag, emerging with a ziplock plastic bag containing a few vitamins and some tylenol. "Maybe this will hold it."


((should we pretty much assume the thing either winds up accidentally squished or escaping before they can really look at it? >.> safer might be escaping, cuz otherwise they'll probably have done the microscope thing by now... XD ))