"I can do wards, sort of, but they're not cost efficient right now and that's not what's keeping the essence plants safe. The nodes in the immediate area are all safe now, the problem is that - nodes have a range of things that they can take from? And the range it can take from people is actually much shorter than the range it can take for something as easy and delicious as essence nodes. The glowing plants around are actually meant to tell me where nodes start eating things that are easy and delicious. Among other things. The light's useful for keeping shadow monsters from showing up and taking issue with my flowers." Pause. "And my face."