"It is, yes- a love with nowhere to go. ... I've faith he'll be back, not unlike Felicity and Add, but it will take time. And that does not mean that the pain felt now is any less." She toys with the necklace some- shielded in her large hand, he cannot see the portrait of the woman who looks so much like him.

But it's there.

"Some of them can go to another out of this place's reach, but the magic must be spread within the Grove; someone from here is also required."

A shovel would be only a few tokens from the river, and can be handwaved.