Chapter 20: Field trip

Most of them switched to their animal forms for swifter movement, but Sol was stuck in human form, with his tree form being 'sluggish' transport. It left him to tie up the totes and backpacks to the strange menagerie of animals gathered round him.

He stumbled along through the brush for a good five minutes before Felicity let him climb on her back. It was harder to ride a lion than he had guessed, but his strength had improved dramatically of late. "Strong as an oak" seemed to describe it. He let his fingers and legs extend slightly to anchor himself on to her muscular back.

It was a crisp mid-Saturday afternoon when they finally got to the spot. A large pit in the ground, originally a quarry site, with a large rock in the center. Within minutes they were making far more noise than they could have gotten away with anywhere else in town.