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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 6770310" data-attributes="member: 6777052">They went up the staircase for some way, without meeting anyone else. As they ascended, the steps changed from stone to wood. It was a curious kind of wood, like the wood of a gnarled oak tree. Eventually, they came to a platform of sorts where daylight was filtering in through tightly-woven tree branches.At a touch, the branches parted like a curtain revealing a huge tree fork where some birds were nesting. Two white fluffy chicks the size of elephants were sitting in an untidy mass of branches and leaves, looking adorably cute. The chicks opened their beaks and made screeching noises, fighting on impossibly ungainly legs to get over each other to grasp the food that had suddenly appeared. The food consisting, that is, of Fingers, Clotbert, Rylnethaz and BoldItalic. The chicks weren't fussy. Nor were they suddenly so adorably cute.BoldItalic quickly subdued them with a Sleep spell, warning the others that it would only hold for a minute. Fingers and Rylnethaz hastily unstrapped some lengths of rope from their packs and they all slid down to the ground, far below. It was not a moment too soon, for the parent birds returned, wheeling and calling in the sky above and, seeing the four juicy creatures on the ground, swooped down to snatch them in their mighty talons.This was a problem.</blockquote>