Jade blushed as Aron leaned in to whisper to her. He smelt so good. But she needed to get her mind back on the case. She looked at Elinor, "So you're sure that it is the ferns that are the source? It does make sense from the infecteds' memories--they were all eating something that had a leafy element to it that I could see. Isobel Ferguson was eating a salad so it would be easy to put some fern leaves in that. Even the people who had stews/a hot meal mentioned the fact that there were too many herb leaves in it."

As Elinor showed them the fern and Aron made a comment about the wand wood being connected. How? Jade thought to herself. She just happened to glance at the fern in that moment and saw that it was bubbling. Her eyes widen, that was definitely new.

Just at that moment, Derek came and waved his wand around his experiments to get them away from the bubbling fern. Jade smirked at the sight.

Elinor was commenting on the wand wood and Jade agreed with her, "Yes, I agree. They will chow down on any kind of wood. Although I think that we should look at wood itself and see how it influences or is influenced by the fern"

And YES Aron totally got it as he went on about the wood and the spores. Jade sighed in admiration of him.

Seeing that Derek was more than a little out of his element, Jade reached out to him. "You've done great, Derek, really great. From the memories, I was able to find out that all the infected ingested the fern leaves through their food. So you're not wrong. What have you found out about the samples?"