The reassurance did nothing to remove the look of concern on Lily's face, though she didn't pry, resolving to find something to turn into a blanket for Eleven if he kept on shivering. Tea could fix a lot of things, but she wasn't sure if it was going to be enough.

While he spoke her worries after his well-being were replaced by keen curiosity, looking back at the tree again as she listened to him. "All of it? Perhaps? The animals eat the plants and then help new ones to grow, and so on?" Lily crossed her arms over her chest, studying the massive thing as she reached up and idly drummed a finger against her chin.

"It's so tremendous, the roots must spread beneath these woods, don't you think?" Hadn't the groundskeeper at school said something like that about some of the trees in the forest back home? "Perhaps that means it's part of a good deal more, however slightly, than we can see?" She looked down at the ground, her eyes following one of the tree's thick ropey roots studying how far they went.