The Elves Are Faced With More Mouths to Feed

The stress of having to have many mouths to feed and the numbers only growing, means that the elves start to get more and more frustrated. So they secretly begin to perform different experiments, first with creatures and plants. They discover that they can start to draw energy from plants but this is very problematic because at this time the the clouds have lifted, but most vegetation is gone. And so anything that they'd be trying to draw a manna from is food that could be eaten. Yet yet, they start to ook to other sources. The frustration of it is only increased by the fact that humanity, their generations are much shorter, and they grow in population at a much quicker pace. As