You would...or at the very least not bother with them. Not to mention the destruction of the crystals seem recent. If they have always felt threatened by them, they would have had this issue long before now.
[It's then that Eustace notices something on the bat's leg, and he frowns as he moves more of the fur to reveal...
...?]
This...
[He reaches out and yanks off something that was attached it. Opening it in his palm, there is a metal black circle with what looks like numbers engraved on them.]
no subject
[It's then that Eustace notices something on the bat's leg, and he frowns as he moves more of the fur to reveal...
...?]
This...
[He reaches out and yanks off something that was attached it. Opening it in his palm, there is a metal black circle with what looks like numbers engraved on them.]
...A tag?