"What is in it? Caves always have hazards and inconveniences," says Carinna warily.
"Harmless plants and creatures," Kanim says, "two springs, attractive crystal formations, a small maze, things like that - I will leave the specifics to be discovered, it's more fun that way, don't you think?"
"I think so," agrees Kiawen. "As long as you're sure Carinna won't be bothered!"
"Quite sure," says Kanim, "and if she is bothered we can always nip her out of there, it doesn't distort space or anything tricky like that."
"Okay," says Carinna decisively, "then I guess we can go to it."
Tanalin, with a pink fluffbat on her head - it might even be the same one - emerges from the maze and watches him.
Eventually he determines the spring is not what he is looking for. He starts peering at the turtle-rocks, occasionally picking them up and moving them to other parts of the cave.
On one such occasion, Tanalin's fluffbat swoops down and gobbles up a flower off the in-transit turtle-rock's back.
Kanim laughs; this won't affect what he's looking at. Eventually he decides the turtlerocks aren't what he's looking for either. He goes farther back and checks out the sparkling cucumber spring. "Enjoying the ducks?" he asks Ike.
"Extremely tiny!" Kanim agrees. Hmmm, spring, pool, rocks - nope. He goes to check out the maze section.
Eventually, Kanim notices that! It helps that in the maze, they're eye-level. "Ah-ha."
"Aren't you magically fascinating. Now I just have to figure out why you don't roll out into the surrounding forest."
Kanim puts the poof down again and decides to track its behavior until the children want to leave.
The blue poof hops onto Ike's head, whmmms in his ear, and rolls away toward the blueberry spring.
"Hi!" says Tanalin. "Learn anything interesting yet?"
"The anti-injury field comes from the crystals, and also the poofs, especially when they glow."
The poof rolls up to her and whmms, so she cuddles it in her lap with the pink fluffbat.