A Junior Agent takes two Kiddie Agents on a nature walk, where one of them finds a glowing stone. Perhaps it's one of those re-naturing stones put out to tackle climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss. What it's doing on the path, I couldn't say, except it could be another plot by those mysterious petshop people.

After this, the transformed trio did not report back, and when a team was dispatched to contact them, they avoided us and evaded capture. We eventually managed to capture the fox, and bunny with offerings of candy bars and other treats, but the tree boy was a little wiser than that. He is a surprisingly fast runner on those rooty feet. Over the terrain of rocky hills and thick heather, our other Agents couldn't keep up, in their boots.
Now we're trying a different tack, and have set out a large pot full of fresh compost that we've enriched further with Miracle-Gro, in the hopes that he'll want to step in and... 'take root'.
While we work on a cure, we've had to send the fox and bunny Agents to the petshop's training grounds. On the first day back, the bunny agent had been so ravenous with the chocolate rabbit and gingerbread people, that they were struggling to regenerate fast enough, while the fox Agent was caught trying to eat a former Agent turned chicken boy.

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