Although the stranger looked young and strong at first glance, Eloquence was not the slightest of girls, and all but balked at the suggestion. "Is there... is there no alternative?" she asked desperately, glancing around for some answer — but everyone else was fleeing in panic, and she and the stranger were becoming more and more crowded by the vermin. "My wand must be around here somewhere..."

Before realising that she had dropped her wand, and it was somewhere in there... covered by swarming, squirming rats.