[ One concerned brow furrowing is added to Jiang's grimace. ]

And did this being reciprocate with anything in return for those offerings?

[ Asks the biggest stickler in his world for fair and equal transactions. ]

At least for this tree, it appears some sort of harm or misfortune has befallen it so perhaps it is easy to reconcile the need for a price to be paid for its healing. A sort of karmic debt, if you will.

However, I also wish to be know if such an event occurring here is a coincidence or a pattern even if such knowledge does not ultimately change our course of action.