It looked like a mutated frozen tree from some horror film at first, and at a distance, he thought it was some oddly coloured geological formation. Then, as he got closer, he realized to his dismay that the entire thing was one gigantic multifaceted crystal. Fortunately for Handy, he now knew there was a difference between gems that were formed by natural processes and their doppelgangers that were apparently grown and farmed. So the fact that his first impression, that of a tree, didn’t seem too out of the realm of possibility.