Indeed, a few days later, Kanim notifies the Duchess and Duke that he's ready to pick up Ike, and Val if she'd like to join them, for the expedition if that's all right.
Kanim starts inspecting the rocks around the blueberry spring in minute detail.
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.
"They are so tiny," says Ike. "Look how tiny they are! They are teeny tiny!"
"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."