The weary travelers arrive...

As Hewy and the others continued their trek following the magpie, twilight was just starting and the woods were slowly beginning to get a little darker.  "I hope we get there soon or it will be a long night out under the stars," he thought.  The others were beginning to think the same thing when all of a sudden a line of purple sparkles appeared on the side of the trail leading off into the undergrowth.

Landing on a tree branch at the start of the magical markers, the magpie sat and pointed with his head for the travelers to follow the magic.  Sprout, as usual and probably thinking with his stomach, rushed ahead to follow the trail before the others.  As the rest passed the bird, Parsley quietly said "Thank You" as the bird acknowledged with a short nod of his head before flying off.

"It appears we are here," Sprout told the others as they came through the bushes and saw a tree house with a small door, window, and several mushrooms.  "I thought all of the mushrooms reported to you Parsley as the head of the Mushroom Line," Cornelia asked?  "Why didn't you know about this place?"

​Surprised as the others, Parsley just shrugged her shoulders.  "Apparently they don't tell me everything it appears," she thought to herself.

As they approached the door and before they could knock, it was opened from within by one of the Sisters.  "I have been told to greet you upon your arrival.  A room has been prepared for each of you and after you have had a chance to freshen up, a meal will be served," she told them.  "Can we eat first?  I am starving," Sprout eagerly replied almost before the Sister had finished.  He realized that he had said the wrong thing immediately when he looked at Parsley and got 'The Mother' stare...  "Sorry, thank you," he quickly told the Sister.

As they were lead up the winding stairs (they were inside of a tall tree after all), they were all surprised at the great number of books, bottles, jars, and scrolls everywhere.  As they passed one room with the door left open, Parsley could see a large selection of herbs and powders that she would love to spend more time in.  "I must find my way back to this room, " she told herself.

As luck would have it, her room was directly across the hall and as the others were being taken to their rooms, Parsley quietly snuck out and took a quick peek at the contents of the room.  She had never seen so many books on Herbology before.  "This must have taken a long time to gather this many," she thought to herself.

Looking at the powders and potions next, she saw some that even she could not recognize.  Finding a mixing bowl already filled with some herbal leaves that one of the Sisters had started to mix together, she decided she would see what would happen.  As she began to grind the leaves...CRACKLE...POOF!

Silently she sat everything down.  "I guess I now know where Sprout gets his spontaneous urges from," she realized as she quickly returned to her room to prepare for dinner.