Dora took another cautious step back as the willow shot one of her birds off into oblivion. Poor birdie... But it had done its job well. As one of the vials fell off unharmed, Dora summoned it to herself and inspected the contents. Wormwood? How bizarre.

I mean yeah, she had seen the cauldron and the work station and all that... but this was kind of dumb. She had to brew a potion near a murderous tree? Who the heck was in charge of planning these challenges?! Maybe Derf and Emmeline were right... there were Dark Wizards in the school. And on the staff. CLEARLY. Sticking the wormwood into her pocket she watched the tree from safety and chewed her lip a bit. SO she had a few options right now...

Seeing as she had read history books and taken lessons on the Willow not only at school but with Spike as well, she knew that the knot needed to be pressed so that the tree would stay still. But there was also another way to get it done at first. Raising her left hand she cast a nonverbal Immobulous and waited a moment before she made a move. Seeing as the last challenge had confounded all logic... she had to make SURE that the spell she cast even work. Although she had used it a MILLION times before.

There was no way she was going to get smacked around by a tree today. NOT TODAY, WILLOW. NOT TODAY!