"I can protect us against the poison; I had it up, earlier, but it expired, since we've been walking for over an hour," she explained, doling out the spell across the party. Over the next twenty minutes, they examined the area and discovered that clipping taken from it withered away almost immediately... and just as quickly, regrew on the main plant. They'd also quickly notice that a pair of roots were passing through the rifts in space. Fortunately, a bit of magic was able to disrupt the portals, severing the roots, and causing the plant to begin withering and shriveling almost immediately.<br/><br/>At the flower died... so, too, did the influence on the area. While the plantlife remained, the fog faded, and the room seemed to... shrink around them. Just so, it would be but a short quarter of an hour back along the route they'd taken before, which both seemed faster and somehow the same length, before they reached the winding tunnel back towards the surface.