"You could go on my back but your dress might make that unwieldly," Alexander said, trying to come up with alternatives. He wasn't the brightest bulb in the world though so ideas were usually not his strong suit. In fact, he tended to have terrible ones such as the one that had ended with a dragon lighting his hair on fire that one time. Or ending up with that pet goat.

"I'll try and find it! Once you have it, perhaps you could make yourself a path through them." He pushed as much of the rats around with his feet as he could, eyes open for a wand.

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