( he had more questions. plenty more, but the state of the land they arrived on smacked him back into their grim reality. )

So much for the plan to help replenish their stock...

( there wasn't even much point in announcing their presence, with the state the workers were in. noctis cringed— the smell of rot finding him even all the way out here. ) No going back empty-handed, right?

( so, plan b it was. there's a glance in lightning's direction before he tilts his head in the towards the treeline on the opposite side of the land— )

Figure that's as good a place as any to start?