Down and down through the castle he went, keeping an eye out for any clues along the way. One thing about his wings was that they gave off glitter when you moved while wearing them, and sometimes ended up doing so when you just carried them about. But Toby was trying very hard NOT to look for any glitter trails, because that wasn't supposed to be the method of finding them again, so he kept his gaze aWAY from the floor.

When he reached the fifth floor, Toby figured it would be a good time to just check he was on the right path, and held up his crystal again. After waiting for it to hang quite still (or, as still as it was going to get), he spoke to it.

"Am I getting closer?"

Concentrate Toby, concentraaaaaaaaate. The Hufflepuff fixed that question in his mind and focused very hard on his wings in his mind's eye, waiting for a response.

The crystal moved... in circles? It wasn't a HUGE amount of movement, but Toby THOUGHT it looked like little circles rather than going back and forth. That was enough for him, so he lowered the crystal again and hurried on down the corridor and off to the staircase, hoping that it would give him a direct route straight to the ground floor at this time of day.