[but can he tell people about the flower's immense charm...... the seeds of a new grift are in there somewhere!!!]

"With time" is too late. [So it definitely isn't quick enough; there must surely be people here already suffering besides them, the newcomers with their own personal griefs. Anders shakes his head and sighs shortly - of course it wouldn't be easy. He'll have to poke around and find the less... public-facing parts of these cities, later.] And I've talked to a few of them. They don't know anything.

[A beat. Okay,] That's not a criticism. Not of them. Not really.