...there are (??not-??) Crafters flying by themselves above his house and that's scary.

Yeah, he's not thrilled with it either. He can ask them if they have any problems with the crows coming and going; they can't craft so they can't communicate the way the crows are used to but some of them can write to him.

...he'll tell the others and come back tomorrow to say what they think about all that.

All right. Here's a mirrored pebble on a string, if they hang it in the sun he'll notice and come over.

Ooh, mirrored pebble on a string.

Okay, thanks.

And he gets to work gathering supplies.

The flow-mage team who came down to investigate seem distinctly befuddled by the interaction, but don't say or gesture anything about it. Seeing that he's taking the initiative to collect his soil and plant samples, they'll take off as well. They don't rejoin the circle, though, instead heading back towards the city.

Well, okay, if they don't want to stick around and get his explanation he won't explain himself.

He fills his boat with dirt and his pockets with leaves and heads back to the house, and half an hour later the chickens' pen is nicely planted with a variety of different bushes to hide in and he goes inside to take a break.

Another half hour or so after he's planted the chicken pen, his doorbell will ring. Outside on the water, there's another two flow-mage squads, including the familiar five, and two vine-boxes, one of which is open, along with four unfamiliar people standing in front of it. One is an older man dressed in a green suit with a white color, like two of the ones before. One is a seemingly middle-aged woman, aside from her stark white hair, dressed in all white similar to the doctor before, and with a tightly-wrapped white cloth covering her nose, mouth, and neck. One is a younger man with long hair and beard and dressed in a much less neat shirt and shorts compared to most of the other people who've come out here. The last is another older man, dressed in darker greens and grays and with spectacles perched on his nose. The green-suited man has a vine-hat, while the two other men have moss caps and the woman in white has no head-covering.