Well. [Knives would make a gesture here, and actually tries to - and nearly drops his journal and small collection of things. It takes a bit of sudden mad scrambling to keep anything from hitting the ground.] A pair of babies at the bottom of a bulb are pretty defenseless, and not exactly safe and secure. If for example, a different crewman was set to watch for that year instead of just Rem, who knows when they might have checked the plants?