I...didn't think I would lose track of time long enough to be leaving on my own.

[ He'd expected the work to be hard, yes, but the gifted magic skewed his perception of how much he could get done and how quickly. It was easy enough to go from one seed to the next, planting a few more didn't seem like a big deal, and...

Well. Now here he is. ]

You said you were investigating? What, exactly?