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[color=6ecff6]"There's definitely something strange about those flowers,"[/color] Ethelred observed.  [color=6ecff6]"I've never seen flowers like these in this region, certainly not in such large numbers. "[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"They might be more of those plant creatures, lying in wait beneath the surface,"[/color] he whispered to Elnith and Lugh.  [color=6ecff6]"Pleasing colors, pleasing smells, all the elements of a deadly trap.  People walk into the flower patch, lured by the voice, and all the sudden the monsters pop out of the ground and swarm them.  Could be why those other Unseelie creatures were trying to goad us into chasing them."[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"I'm going to put my suspicions to the test.  Be ready for a fight,"[/color] he advised his companions as he approached some of the flowers.

He wasn't going to leave anything to chance.  He took his lance and slowly pushed it into the ground where a flower sat, wanting to see if there was indeed a monster hiding down there.  Even if it proved to be nothing, if the flower's stem merely led to benign roots instead of a monster's head, he'd move to the next flower, and the next one, poking the ground at each one.

[@Rune_Alchemist]