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WATCHEM WATCHEMS EVERYWHERE
The uprooted tree was still there and, to everyone’s delight, alive.
It hadn’t been displaced completely, only enough to make it fall over, and so the roots had kept growing, despite how much they’d been exposed.
It was a large tree, almost as tall as the house, but the trunk was rather thin. Small clumps of mushrooms covered the bark, as well as several different lichens. It seemed to Thordric almost a shame to move it again, but if that’s what made the Watchem Watchems happy, then that’s what Vey had to do.
Standing back to assess it, Vey deepened the hole around the roots slightly so there would be room for all the new growth. The bushes gurgled as they watched him, but it wasn’t an angry sound. Encouraged, he levitated the tree and turned it back to
