[ His hand does look normal, but sparkling is definitely... out of the ordinary.

Oddly, it helps that it's not just Mako. It helps that Fern's having weird things happen too, even if they're on the surface more innocuous. ]

Guess a lot changed between Deerington and... here. I don't know if this is really the world underneath the dream or something completely different. Nothing except the sparkling? And you said only when you pick plants off?