Edeltraud clicked her way deep into Canis. She had only been here for a scant few minutes, but she already hated this cave. Edeltraud's nose was wrinkled. It was nothing but death in here. Such an awful cave! She couldn't see why anyone would want to live here, surrounded by death. Edeltraud hopped over a ribcage, feeling a backhoof clip a rib. It clattered to the ground behind her. Edeltraud sighed.

"Such a dismal place, hm, Bly?" Edeltraud called back to her spitting bug. Bly's mouthparts twitched in response, blank eyes staring back. "Mmm, agreed." Edeltraud said. "Perhaps we should head back to Pegasus afterwards. Or Eridanus, yes? I'll try to make this a quick visit." Edeltraud cleared her throat, projecting a sweet voice. "Collector...?" She called. "Are you about...?"

Edeltraud would find a sign.

The sign was large, tall, and wooden. It was carved in dark letters. And just in case a visitor could not read, there was a scratchy image of the Collector to one side of the lettering.

Should she touch the sign, its message would be imparted directly to her mind:

"GONE TO MONOCEROS FOR THE DURATION OF THIS ORDER PLAGUE. DECIMATING IT WOULD BE MOST APPRECIATED, AND REWARDED."

It seemed she had farther to travel.

@Edeltraud

Edeltraud tilted her head at the sign. It certainly looked like the descriptions she'd heard of the Collector. She wasn't sure why someone decided to marr the wood next to it with scribbles. Edeltraud hummed, trotting around it in a dainty circle. Was she supposed to wait for him here...? No that didn't seem right.

"Am I supposed to do something with you? Are you in there, Collector?" Edeltraud approached, hesitating slightly, before kicking at the sign with a front foot. The message blared in her head. Edeltraud did more than start--she bolted. She regained her composure after shed dashed about several meters away (though she would've preferred instantly) and shook herself out, thick wool barely shaking. Only Bly was there to see, and the spitting bug didn't pass judgement.

"Embarrassing." She muttered beneath her breath. She glanced back to Bly "It seems we're off to Monoceros then, sweet." Wherever that was. Edeltraud couldn't leave this cave fast enough, truth be told. But it did seem some work should be done here. She'd thought nothing of the fungus, but if the Collector wanted assistance, who was she to turn it down?

"Say Bly, while we're here, why don't we assist hmm?" Edeltraud did not know all that Mother was, but a request to clear out fungus was easy enough for her. She couldn't exactly get rid of it but...she could at least push it elsewhere. Edeltraud hummed as she channeled her Magicka. It was time to clean.

Unsurprisingly, moving fungus came easily to Edeltraud. She ended up making a game of it, scurrying away clumps of mold as she chased them. In the end, she left a sizable path clear of mold, from the Collector's sign (which she cautiously avoided poking again) to the entrance shed came from. Job done, she looked back at her handiwork, a smile curling her lips.

"Beautifully done, mmm, doll?" Bly in her eloquent way twitched chelicerae. Good enough for Edeltraud. "Well come on then, we've got a cave to find." Edeltraud skipped off, humming a soft tune to herself.

;Exit Edel to the RIGHT cave