"Oh, you found it brother," Whisker said happily. "Congratulations."
"But… there is no flower there," Pearl said. "Can we even be happy?"
"Oh, we can be happy," Alex said. "If nothing, I know exactly where to come to next time I need to come here."
The four of them approached the plant, standing right before it by the end. The other three had no idea what they were doing standing before a plant with no flowers. Not even a bud.
"Can you learn anything from it?" Pearl asked.
"I'm not sure," Alex said, crouching in front of the plant. "Let me look at it first."
He used his spiritual sense to look at the plant but found himself unable to push past the body of the plant. That was good news. It meant that there was energy inside of the plant which was forcing his spiritual sense out.