Elder Evelynn shared her extensive knowledge of the diverse flora and told of flesh-eating plants, unfriendly walkabouts, exploding peashooters, grab grass, walkabout bushes, orange Triffids, pyrocanthas, Tree Herders, venous fly traps, tetra-berry bushes, booderry bushes, milk trees, and walkabout bushes. When the elusive walkabout plants sensed an examiner nearby, they uprooted and walked about. Displacer plants were tricky also. The actual plant was either a pace to the left, right, front, or rear of where it appeared to be, and its auburn thorns were quite hostile. Peashooters fired projectiles from their stems that stung intruders. But most of the flora was friendly. The contrary plants served the purpose of educating the unwary of the intricacies of the forests. Orange triffids helped the youths in their horticultural studies. Xenn began classes with nymphs of the same age. Xenn learned of creatures such as wyverns, Baxcats, lee cats, Leicats, griffons, griffins, griphins, gryphons, hamadryads, humming birds, pi rannas, leprechauns, Manticores, medusas, dragons of various colors, nagas, troglodytes, Pegasi of various colors, satyrs, dryads, Minotaurs, pixies, sasquatch, trolls, wyrms, wyverns, sirens, huldra, chimeras, sphinxes, banshee, boogie men, bogeymen, brownies, centaurs, hippogriffs, Dobies, Efreet, fauns, fawns, foans, sprites, adherers, shape changers, doppelgangers, and other fanciful ilk.
At the beginning of the Xenn’s seventh year, the Teacher Boyd called him to the Old Orange Spruce.
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