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[Maxwell] Do you want the good news or the bad news?

I hate it when he says that.

The bad news is that today’s class is canceled.

I think you have good and bad confused, Professor.

[Maxwell] Let me tell you the good news.

The Department has assigned two magical outbreaks for you to handle.

You’ll find everything regarding your tasks in these.

-Now I must be off. -What if we need you?

Ah, Lily’s the senior fairy in charge of you, so you’ll be fine.

[Lily] That’s our magical water fountain?

It doesn’t look very magical.

[Ruksy giggles]

-It’s not funny. -Yes it is.

A water fountain with a mind of its own is no laughing matter.

-Since when did you get all serious? -Since the professor put me in charge.

This magic could spread through the plumbing and affect the whole city.

Let’s go. I want to get this done before the elves.

-It’s not a race. -It’s always a race with Imogen and Darra.

Come on.

Why did you invite Kyra? This is a chance to impress the Department.

Kyra needs to learn. And you taught her how to jump.

-Remember how long that took? -[Darra] As I remember, pretty quick.

-What exactly are we looking for? -A special kind of tree.

What’s special about it?

It’s a magical tree created by a wizard for his garden.

A bird must have eaten a seed and dropped it here.

We have to deal with the tree before it becomes too… active.

-Active as in…? -Mm, you’ll see.

-First task is to locate it. -[Kyra] How?

I’ll know it when I see it. We should split up and search. Kyra.

You’re with me.

Good hunting, sis.

Oh, Professor Maxwell. Haven’t seen you in a while.

Well, the Library keeps me off the streets. You’re looking well, Trevor.

I can’t complain. It wouldn’t make any difference if I did, eh?

[chuckles]

Maxwell.

Come to check up on us?

Just a quick meeting with Sean.

-Anything I should know about? -Some academic matters.

Boring but necessary.

Nice to see you, Orla.

-I presume this is about Kyra. -Lily told me what happened.

Was Kyra really able to communicate remotely with the Library?

She was.

I’m a little concerned you didn’t tell me about it first.

I wanted to think about it. That level of ability is… unusual.

To say the least. Perhaps you could give me a full report now.

[Lily] Ruksy, I’m going to let you go first at this.

Is that because you don’t know what to do?

Of course not. I'm letting you go, because it can’t be too complicated,

or the DMI wouldn’t have given us this chance.

I’ll try a basic removal spell.

-That should do it. -That seemed very easy.

Well, you said the DMI wouldn’t give us anything too hard.

You said it wasn’t funny.

[Kyra] Do you think this is the tree?

There’s one way to tell. We can see if its aura has been affected.

-It’s aura? -[Darra] All living things have an aura.

Humans can’t detect it. Well, most humans can't.

But all magical beings can.

Sounds like a fairy thing to me.

Well, elves can detect auras, too. We just don’t boast about it.

[chuckles]

This one is normal, no magic.

-You want to try? -Mm-hmm.

[laughs lightly]

It should feel like a very gentle vibration.

[gasps]

I can feel it.

[both chuckle]

[Imogen] It’s this way.

[both laugh]

I don’t think you’ve got the hang of this removal spell, Ruksy.

So, watch and learn.

[chuckles]

Uh, what am I meant to be learning?

[Imogen] This is the tree.

Go on, try it.

Wow. It feels like it’s been electrified.

That’s how you know the tree is magic.

It just needs to be deactivated.

I’ll put a spell around the roots and the tree will suck it up.

-You going to do this on your own? -You don’t think I can?

It’s supposed to be a team effort.

I could do it in the time it takes you to go to the café and get us all a juice.

-So why don’t you? -You’ll never do it.

I’ll go slow, give you extra time.

-Watermelon, orange and mint, yeah? -Thanks.

I’ll be back before your fingers start to glow. Loser pays.

We need to talk about my brother.

[Sean] You said yourself the tri-ling’s powers were unpredictable.

Perhaps remote magic was one of them.

So why does it only appear now?

On a beach which apparently does not permit the normal use of magic.

And yet she sent a message to the Library. How do you explain that?

There’s only one answer I can think of and I would rather not be thinking of it.

[Sean] Exposure to the Lemurian Orb,

which you and the architect were sent to recover.

That’s simply not possible, Sean.

Edward and I never recovered the Orb.

But what happened on the beach would suggest otherwise.

You know, there’s an upside when your parents are separated.

You drop a hint about something you want, and you get it.

The worst thing is they both get the hint and get you the same thing twice.

Earth to Peter.

Wireless ear buds. Cool. These the ones with the GPS?

Yeah, so you don’t lose them.

I thought maybe Kyra could use them when she goes running.

I hardly see her these days, so maybe you could…

Sure. I’ll get them to her.

[Darra] Can I get three juices to go, please?

Uh, one tropical and two watermelon, orange and mint.

You're kidding me?

[bleeps]

[Peter] You’re Darra, right?

I saw you here the other day with Kyra.

-Peter. -Yeah.

So, how did you two meet?

I haven’t seen you at school.

I don’t go to your school. We just sort of… bumped into each other.

Did you hear about that suit of armor the other week? Crazy publicity stunt.

It went right by here.

You didn’t happen to see it, did you?

I was in school all day. Exams.

-Right. -Right. I better be going.

-Nice seeing you. -Same.

Hey, you wouldn’t be seeing Kyra some time today, would you?

Actually, yeah. Why?

Could you give her these? Her friend Mathilda asked me to pass them on.

No problem.

[bleeping]

-What is going on between you and Darra? -Nothing.

I’m his sister, Kyra.

He’s been acting different ever since you two came back from that beach.

Darra looked after me, that’s all.

[Imogen] Then why was he so keen to have you come with us?

Like he said, he’s trying to help me learn.

What is with you, Imogen?

If we don’t fix this, we’ll never hear the end of it from Imogen and Darra.

You could call your Dad.

What’s the point of having a father who is head of the DMI

if you can’t ask for help occasionally?

Nobody is calling anyone’s father.

The professor put me in charge.

-We’re going to fix it ourselves. -How?

I was wondering if it needs both of us. You know, double the wand power.

Well, if we use more power, we might attract attention.

Then we will do it discreetly, from both sides.

-What do you think? -Hm!

Three, two…

one… now!

[both squeal]

-It worked. -Discreet, huh?

[both laugh]

[Imogen] Don’t worry. I’ve got this.

Huh. Too easy. Looks like Darra’s paying.

[both scream]

[both pant]

-Too easy, did you say? -You’re not funny.

I’m shutting this thing down.

-[Imogen grunts] -Ow! You’re making it tighter!

-[Kyra grunts] Stop! -[both panting]

-Now what? -I’m thinking.

[grunts]

[Kyra] Hey, stop struggling. Ow!

[sighs] You’re making it worse.

[Darra laughs]

-Don’t say it. -I see you’re a little tied up.

Hilarious. Now hurry up and get us out before anyone sees us.

I could fix that.

-[Kyra] Don’t! -[Darra] Why?

The tree uses magic to make more vines.

I thought this was supposed to be a simple job.

Maybe it’s a test of our ingenuity.

Darra, go back to the Library and look in the folder.

-Find a way to get us out of this. -Okay. Back soon. Don’t go anywhere.

Typical. Brings the drinks but forgets the extra-long straws.

[laughs]

-[Imogen] What’s Peter doing here? -I don’t know.

How’s he doing that?

[Kyra sighs]

It’s pretty odd he turned up here just now, don’t you think?

[Darra] What happened to you?

Job done and we beat you back.

-Where's Kyra and Imogen? -We, um, ran into a problem.

You wouldn’t happen to know anything about strangler figs?

As it happens, I did flick through your folder.

Kyra told me that the portal to the beach was decaying.

Careless of Edward to leave it here.

It’s safe now. After you.

This is an extraordinary creation.

It’s not listed on any DMI register.

Edward was gifted.

And good at keeping secrets, it seems.

Let’s see if he left anything behind.

[Sean] This must be where he designed the Library.

The Orb’s not here.

-Unless the tri-ling took it. -Kyra’s no thief.

If she found it, she would've brought it to me.

Then how do you explain what she did?

She’s a tri-ling. We have no idea what she is capable of.

I understand you feel a certain kinship with the girl…

but she’s not truly one of us.

You keep an eye on her.

Let me know if she exhibits any further abilities. Clear?

[grunts] I will not be beaten by a tree.

Take it easy. Darra will be back soon.

-You really want to rely on him? -Why not?

I know my brother way better than you.

He needs to be focused on where he’s headed.

-He doesn’t need any distractions. -What distractions?

I’ve seen the way he looks at you.

I’m sure Darra is capable of making his own decisions.

He doesn’t need you to protect him.

No, you’ve got it wrong, Kyra.

I’m not protecting him, I’m protecting you.

-Problem solved. The tree is hungry. -It’s trying to eat us?

It would discover pretty quick that you’re not to its taste.

Especially you, sis.

You are so not funny. What’s with the gumboot?

This tree feeds only once a year and has a strong preference for sea slug slime.

[device bleeps]

-[pants How is he doing that? -[bleeping]

[sighs and pants]

[Imogen groans] That smells rank.

[Darra] Almost done. There!

Um… I can’t feel my arms!

How long before it lets us go?

The folder wasn’t entirely clear about that.

[both squeal]

[chuckles] There you go. The tree won’t need to feed for another year.

[coughs]

I just made a tree throw up.

-How brilliant is that? [laughs] -Genius.

Let’s get out of here.

Come on, that was a good one.

[device bleeps]

[Peter sighs]

[device bleeps]

When you report back to the Department, there’s no need to go into detail.

We contained the threats, right?

The point of them is to learn, which is what you did.

That’s all the Department needs to know.

I wish that was all they wanted to know.

I bumped into Peter at Harvey’s. He asked me to pass these on.

-Ear buds? -Peter was at the tree after you arrived.

-Did he follow you? -How could he? I jumped.

Pretty big coincidence he turned up when he did.

[shop bell rings]

Customer.

-Peter, how can I help? -Uh, hi, Max. I was just checking to see

if that Trinity of Justice, Volume III I ordered had come in.

A shipment came in yesterday. Give me a moment and I’ll check.

[Maxwell grunts]

No, Peter, sorry.

No problem. I’ll check back next week.

You were all talking about Peter. He was just here.

-Still a coincidence? -It must be.

Peter is a clever boy. Are you sure he doesn’t suspect?

He’s my oldest friend. If he knew anything, he’d have told me.

-And would you tell us if he did? -Of course.

Don’t worry about Peter. I can handle him.