"Keep digging," came Ashelia's harried voice from not far off. "They - whomsoever did this, they might have left something." It occurred to the queen for a moment that she hadn't truly believed their search would be fruitless. That she would fail that girl. Her brow slick with sweat, her hands weakly grasping mine own... A good few of her brothers had met the same end. No...

Though the bulbs that dotted the plateau were obviously not what they were looking for, Ashelia found herself digging around one anyway. "Maybe the roots might have entangled one of the seeds..."