They found nothing, and it was the same every buckle for weeks. Barra’s mother was busy looking for support among the Arboreals, so it was easy for Barra to disappear for hours at a time and borrow whatever she needed from the abandoned study. She brought entire sheaves to the group, and the three pored over her father’s research, learning what they could. They devised a plan for capturing the Kudmoths. Now, they only needed to find some. As night after night passed without a sighting, Barra worried that Tory and Plicks doubted her story. There were lots of reasons why they hadn’t found anything yet. Maybe the Kudmoths heard them coming, or only came out at specific times, and maybe they were in completely the wrong part of the Middens. It was hard to know. Their plan for capture came from Plicks and Tory. They gathered trapwillow moss and arranged the strands into a net. Setting trapwillow into a mesh demanded patience and precision because the resin-sticky strands were difficult to manipulate once they were torn from the bunch.
