Wendy looks thoughtful.<br/><br/>"Hang on."  she says, just realising something. "My magic shouldn't work here, but it does. I'm only supposed to be able to do this in the Mushroom Kingdom. I wonder..."<br/><br/>She reverts to her 'normal' form, starting to twirl her staff/cane in an intricate patern, its head leaving a glowing blue trail behind it. "If I get this right, I think I can speed up our journey to the castle." she explains, still keeping the staff in motion. "I think I can summon us a warp pipe... problem is, we won't know if I got it right until we try it."<br/><br/>She goes quiet, concentrating hard on the complex spell, runic patterns appearing in the air, glowing blue as they orbit around her. They seem to get sucked into the gemstone, then Wendy slams the point of the staff into the ground, where it stabs deep. The earth cracks, something glowing and blue below it. Then everything goes quiet, and still.<br/><br/>The pipe is green, the paint flaking away in some places, and it rises from below with some force, throwing Wendy back to land on her shell.<br/><br/>The opening is perhaps six feet across, and the walls of the gaping tube are four inch thick rolled steel. Stamped into the side of its thick rim are the words "WARP PIPE". Looking down it, the pipe looks like a yawning chasm of polished steel, descending into infinity.<br/><br/>"So, uh, do we try it? We should decide quickly, it won't take long for the piranha plants to find this new pipe."