Apparently,
the recently rebuilt Trabia Garden was having a crisis and needed SeeD
members to assist them in stopping the chaos.Cid
had explained how hundreds of the residents at Trabia were infected with
a very serious, not to mention contagious, disease.Thus,
Trabia Garden has since been completely locked down, allowing no one to
either enter or leave without special authorization.
In
the meantime, doctors everywhere are working around the clock in order
to find a cure.These men and women
are mixing, combining, and using up their entire supplies of herbs and
potions.This is where SeeD comes
in.The doctors have asked that
they send out some of their employees with the instructions to search for
herbs and other ingredients used in potion making.
Zell was among those who had been selected for the job.He was assigned to look for the Phlemnesium Herb on Kempi Island, but it was a twelve hour trip from Balamb with the crappy little rowboat issued to him by SeeD.(By the time Zell had dragged himself from the comforts of his snug little bed and reported to Headmaster Cid at the docks, this was the only boat, if you could call it that, available for use.)Zell was just four hours away from Kempi Island when he stopped in exhaustion for a rest.