"I was also looking for an unusual formation in the vegetation. Perhaps a vine grown in the shape of a ring, though that seems a little too similar to the wreath idea to be a coincidence. I considered the wreath itself might be the clue as well, but-"

He turns to watch Sebastian circle back to the same plant, take off his ring, and stick it onto one of the spikes. His voice drifts off somewhere in the middle of this, and he's quiet for a moment as the path emerges.

"You gotta be goddamn kidding me," he says abruptly. "How the hell is that- I don't even have a ring. How was I supposed to-"