Fletcher grinned in response. “Are you ready?” He looked between both blond young men, who gave each other dirty looks before nodding as one and placing their hands on the transmutation circle. “Okay, here we go!” and Fletcher placed his hand between theirs, lighting the circle in a flash of emerald. Starting at the base, the trees in the surrounding area began turning the color of blood, growing taller as if time had fast forwarded hundreds of years in a moment, the wood creaking as it swelled. "They’re absorbing the red water," Ed said in awe. Indeed, every tree in the surrounding forest within a mile radius was growing, filling like a thermometer on a hot day, the rivers of toxic water was siphoning into their expanding trunks. "He's using the trees to purify the water." Fletcher sud

