We'd most likely need someone with a great connection to the elementals here, too.

[He settles a little more, willing to stay. It's certainly true that there were no signs… and the dryads don't seem to have been willing to talk. It worries him- is it a single incident?]

That's… well, they could be made out of the nearby materials, but… that could be a problem…. It doesn't seem right that there wouldn't be, but…. [His gaze shifts away, for a moment. For Cairngorm- he doesn't know, and it troubles him.] I'm sorry.