Pushing up so his upper body was supported by his elbows, Tobias looked at the tree again, not wanting to miss any sign from it. He narrowed his eyes slightly but smiled as he looked at it. It kind of looked like the wind was making the branches move with slightly more enthusiasm, but the wind hadn't picked up. The tree was laughing at Toby, but Toby could tell that Hazel wasn't making fun of him. They seemed... amused.

Pushing himself back to his feet, Tobias moved a little closer. Well, there was definite jovial feeling here, it seemed like he was being granted permission to for a branch which was AWESOME... partly because he didn't want to have to go into the forest to find another hazel tree, because he was dead set on this kind of wood.

"Really? Aww, thanks Hazel. Glad to provide you with some entertainment, too." It must be peaceful, being a tree... but sometimes a little something interesting might be good too.

Tobias looked up a little into the branches. He was glad it wasn't too tall, because he didn't really want to have to climb hazel or anything. Apparently the tree would guide HIM to the right branch, so Tobias let his eyes rake over what he saw above him. He started to get a bit worried when no branch was really... you know... calling to him, and wondered if the tree had changed their mind... when his eyes were suddenly drawn to a small branch. It was quite low down and not too far away. Small, but plenty big enough to make a Gandr.

But before he took it, Toby had to make an offering. It was in the book AND it was manners, y'know.

Pulling out a small something from his robes pocket, Tobias knelt back down again and shuffled forward. He hadn't bought anything to dig with, and he didn't want to run to the greenhouses for a trowel in case he interrupted the flow of things here, so he rolled up his sleeves and just started digging at the dirt with his hands. There was actually a stick nearby that he was be able to use; it must have come from a different tree because it didn't look anything like the hazel branches. Whatever it was, Tobias reached for it and used it to aid him in digging a little hole.

Once that was done he picked up the something that he'd set on the ground while he'd dug, which turned out to be a piece of bread he'd swiped from the great hall.

"Sorry it's not much. There's not much good food at the castle, to be honest."

Was he... supposed to fill in the hole again? He did anyway, in case a bird or hungry Hogwarts student came along and nicked the bread, and then Tobias stood up and looked in his book again for the next step.