The pods aren't tiny, and it wouldn't take long to steal quite a sack full of them. « you'd just leave someone to sleep in a tent in the middle of the fields d

The pods aren't tiny, and it wouldn't take long to steal quite a sack full of them. « you'd just leave someone to sleep in a tent in the middle of the fields during the critical harvest time. » The word "just" is doing a lot of work here.