#24 Stairs To Adventure

Ezra's eyes widened as he opened the door to reveal an overload of green. Leaves and vines and bright sunshine, as if he had just stepped outside instead of through a door up a high tower.

He blinked and then stretched out to poke the closest leaf, looking back through the door to the stairway after just to check that he was still in the tower.

"So cool," he whispered as he stepped fully into the room, allowing the door to fall shut behind him.

After he had taken his chance to poke some more at various leaves and then watching them bounce back up from his movements, finally his eyes were drawn to three large pots in the middle of the room. The large pots that contained equally large plants with fang-like golden thorns.

Ezra tilted his head as he wondered what he was supposed to do.

Eventually he spotted the plaque and rushed over to read it.

"Beware: one Al-wort bites," he read out loud before he turned back to the plants. "Is that what you are? Al-o-wort's? Why does only one bite?"

It was around that point, as he was wondering why it would mention only one plant biting, that he noticed the glass box held inside each of them. A glass box holding-

"Fish eyes!" he cheered. They were a potion ingredient! Though he could not quite remember what they were used for, he was sure he would eventually figure it out. They would probably be a really neat ingredient to have...

"Oh! Am I s'posed to get the eyes?" he asked the plants. "If only one of you bites.. then that means that two of you are safe!"

With that thought up, Ezra darted forward and reached straight into plant 3 in an attempt to retrieve the glass box within.

Ezra cheered as he pulled the box free of its plant prison.

The Alowort had shifted around a little bit during his grab, making him wonder if he should have been more worried about becoming plant food, but it had soon settled down again. With the fish eye container in his hands, those little thoughts had said goodbye as well.

He was much too happy to have the fish eye box in hand to pay any mind to something that had not happened after all. Not when he could be trying to figure out how to get in to the container instead.

Which is what he immediately started to attempt after his little celebration. Only, he could not spot a way to open it up. Was he supposed to use a spell?

He could not think of what spell would help, which was not a good start. Maybe asking one of his siblings would be a good idea. He was sure that they knew all sorts of spells.

Or.. maybe he just needed a second box?

Ezra turned back to the plants. Two fish eyes would be better than one fish eye too.

He looked between the two that still had the ingredients held wedged in them, then reached straight into plant 2.