ET- Anesthetic

  “He—that is—I—seek a cutting from your shoot.”

  Certainly, certainly, said the plant, but E.T. sensed that nothing now was certain.

  But his feet were released, the binding power withdrawing back into the stones with a faint hiss. He stepped toward the crevice in the rock, where the shoot was bedded, and the robot shone his eye beams into it.

  E.T. reached down to it, and his healing finger glowed, for he must anesthetize the plant first; then with tender care, he broke it off.

- E.T. The Book of the Green Planet, chapter 19