"<strong>Yes</strong>, Ari smiles at Mackar,<strong>"they are old old old, aren't they</strong>?  Passing in front of the ruins, she snaps more pictures.  When he mentions that they are protected, she frowns,<strong>"Who protects them Mackar?"</strong><br/><br/>As he pulls the weedy looking plant and announces it as the base for his cell medicine, Ari asks, "<strong>May I have some of it?  Not just a plucked piece, but some that I can actually plant?"</strong><br/><br/>Not wanting to offend, she offers something of hers, taking the baseball cap off of her head, she proffers it,<strong>"I will trade this.  It's pretty much all I have.  Oh! and this."</strong>she adds, and digging into her pack, she pulls out a bar of plain Hershey's milk chocolate.<br/><br/>Something she's found to be the great communicator.  At least among humans. Breaking off a piece, she hands it to the amazing healer before her as she eats the other piece showing that it's food and not poisonous.<br/>