Ah. Not injured was a good start. Ethlyn followed Kurama's gaze as they dropped to his arms--she could see nothing there. But she would take his word for it that it was happening. When you thought about it, plants were everywhere. The trees shading the streets, the grass threading up from the soil, the crocuses and redbuds coming into bloom. To have all that reaching for you, unable to stop it, had to be exhausting.

"I think you must be right," she said. "The beast outside the city got hold of artifacts from someone else's world--and its power infected them, and through that, is infecting many of us."

She looked at her healing staff, propped in the corner. It was useful for physical wounds, but against ailments, sickness, it was no good. Still... "What kind of symptoms is the connection with the plants causing? Maybe we can figure out how to make it easier for you to bear."