Still looking at the point where the ball had passed through the spirits, Rufus nodded, even if the onlookers below were unlikely to notice. With another tap of the cane, the stone pillar resumed growing, this time into a slide spiraling down towards the ground.

"If you wouldn't mind?"

After some mandatory grumbling, Jiminiy got out of the bag and started pushing the chair. The homunculus was a lot stronger than his stature suggested and in moments, the chair was sliding down the smooth spiral, only coming to a stop at the rougher surface of the ground.

Rufus looked up at his impromptu creation, the giant pillar looking like a slightly deranged artist's tribute to DNA. "Now that's rather unsightly, wouldn't you say?" With a final tap he let the pillar collapse back into the ground that had formed it and moments later Jiminy landed on the ground, annoyed but unharmed.

"So where were we?"