Ah, so he's familiar with them. The Queen Barry nods her confirmation as a worker arrives and presents her with a coiled up leaf. Inside of it shines a rich, thick, golden liquid. No doubt it's from the fruits that Dustin had collected. She sips at it before continuing on.

[Indeed. The large stone hole. It is a nuisance to us of course, as it is very deep and nothing will grow in or around it. The rocks are not natural, they do not belong here. None of the plants that belong can tunnel through them, and so the land cannot be reclaimed. It took many generations for us to help cultivate vines that could grow over this horrid stone forms that the Interlopers used before they left here. And these mockeries of trees are dangerous for my people. We have had to limit ourselves to areas away from them. A single fallen stone can crush our strongest warriors.]