The beetle doesn't glow, but something else happens. Things start moving again, Pax and the beetle included.
The beetle crawls down Pax's finger a ways before suddenly taking flight, directly at her face. She lets out a squealing laugh of surprise and twists her entire body. It's enough to unbalance her, and she begins rolling down the hill. In true Pax form she just sort of lets it happen, laughing brightly all the way down. But watching Pax roll down the hill isn't nearly as interesting or useful as the door that slowly appears in the tree she'd just be lying in front of.
[MEMORY CRITERIA MET! You guys can keep threading here and looking for the linchpin, or you can leave through the portal back to Peckenpaugh.]
MEMORY: Reclined - REPLIES MET!
The beetle crawls down Pax's finger a ways before suddenly taking flight, directly at her face. She lets out a squealing laugh of surprise and twists her entire body. It's enough to unbalance her, and she begins rolling down the hill. In true Pax form she just sort of lets it happen, laughing brightly all the way down. But watching Pax roll down the hill isn't nearly as interesting or useful as the door that slowly appears in the tree she'd just be lying in front of.
[MEMORY CRITERIA MET! You guys can keep threading here and looking for the linchpin, or you can leave through the portal back to Peckenpaugh.]