And that looked like something out of a cartoon, to the point that Ash had to bite her tongue just a little to keep from laughing. "Well," she finally said, "today I have learned that living in an apartment should not have kept me from learning a weed-whacker spell."

Ash turned her attentions fully to a door, working on carving out an exit for them without harming the actual Sanctuary itself. Not like the plants respected that, but the last thing she needed was someone using a gouge or nick to claim that mages had been irresponsible and so forth...