[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
Asteria inspected the plants. The ones with a scent similar to the Healing herbs were also confirmed to either have nature mana or felt soothing in a way. A hairy blue-gray flower with dense bunches of petals seemed the closest to the herbs she was used to, yet it was a tad unpleasant and apparently incomplete. A grass with red and green pellets was very neutral – perhaps the clusters it grew were edible? The blue-yellow blossoms growing from woody stalks had a green sticky substance leaking out of them occasionally, most of the stuff smelling unpleasant like soured milk, but a rare few had a pleasant mint scent, similar to the Healing herbs – however, this plant also had incomplete mana, so it either wouldn’t heal as well, or would even cause harm. The stems with pinecone-esque protrusions surrounded by bell-shaped purple petals had a burning mana instead of a natural one, and though it felt prickly, it was soothing and incomplete as well. The thorny weed Ed, Mother rat, and she had been avoiding had a hint of potentially harmful mana as well, but they weren’t much of a danger. 

So, out of five of the plain’s plants, three had obvious mana and the same three were incomplete. The question was, if she combined the three of them together, would she create a healing mixture as good as the Healing herb? She didn’t know, but she wanted to try. Gathering all the five plants by wrapping her tail around the bunch. [color=F0E68C][i]Should I take more than one of each?[/i][/color] As she considered this, she was distracted by Mother Rat’s squeaks. She glanced up, noticing Ed had killed the ant, as she’d had full confidence he would. Mother rat was drawing her attention to the tunnel the ant had come from. The jumping and squeaking meant, based on Asteria’s best guess, that there was danger still. [color=F0E68C][i]Of course, ants aren’t solitary. There must be a whole colony where that one came from, and we couldn’t handle more…[/i][/color] Realizing that, Asteria was once again driven to move. [color=F0E68C]“Ed, let’s take the ant corpse and move on, shall we? I believe there may more on the way.”[/color] Tail wrapped around the plants, she moved to the tunnel only to quickly (and a bit shoddily in her hurry) dig some earth into it. Glancing towards Mother rat, she said [color=F0E68C]“Let’s go,”[/color] and moved away, giving both Ed and Mother Rat enough time to move along with her as she headed further south, the direction they’d been pursuing so far.

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Inspects plants visually, making notes on which the ones with mana and healing/soothing qualities are (btw, I went back for their description, so hopefully, they're all correct).
Thinks she should combine the plants.
Notices MR's commotion. Realizes more ants are probably coming.
Takes all 5 plants with her by wrapping her tail around them carefully.
Suggests to Ed they move on and take their loot with them.
Swiftly digs some earth into the tunnel to make it hopefully make it a bit harder for the ants.
Begins leading the departure from the ant-tunnel site, still heading south-wards.
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