The sick trees and their owner can be found amid an even larger number of healthy trees.

The tree person does not look like a tree but he does look somewhat like a bunny, mostly because of his ears and the way his body hair resembles very soft fur. He doesn't seem to have wings of any kind. He's happy to see her and wants to hear about what she's planning to do, if and only if hearing about it won't make it work any less well.

"I'm going to need to look at each tree for a while, longer if they're very big, and when I'm done the ones I've seen to should be fine. It won't keep them from getting sick again, though. How much were you thinking of paying?"

"Honestly I'd been expecting you had some sort of standard rate but let's say thirty crowns?"

"Per -"

"Per tree, unless it makes more sense to go by, I don't know, area or time."

"Per tree works for me. Where do you want me to start?"

He can show her to a tree which is having problems with fungus.

She inspects it from many angles for about fifteen minutes, and then the tree heals instantly.

Then he'll show her to a bunch of others. And on the way he asks if there's anything else she can do like that.

"A few things, why?"

"I know people who would pay for this kind of thing for animals. Or to have you fix things that aren't alive, like a radio or a sofa."

"I think I can do an animal or a sofa but I'm not sure about a radio."

"You'll have business, then. And I'll let people know you're for real."

"Thanks!"

And in the mean time he can finish showing her his trees. At least, the fraction of them that need magic help. There aren't too many more at the moment.

He has cash on him, in the form of pieces of paper saying they're worth ten or twenty crowns each, to pay with.

"This is what money looks like around here?"

"There are also metal squares, but yeah, those are good in most of the northeast. They're harder to counterfeit than they look."

"All right." She collects the paper, careful not to touch him. "I need somewhere to sleep, at some point, do you have recommendations?"

"I hear good things about Chequy Lodge and there are some decent places to camp near here - for free if you don't want running water or anything, or you can pay to stay someplace nicer - really just stay near town and don't crash on someone else's property without permission."

"I'm not attached to running water. How do I tell if someplace is someone's property?"

"If it's in town, or looks really cultivated, or has a fence around it, or it has a sign saying 'private property' or 'keep out', or if there are buildings that look like someone could be using them, or if someone tells you it belongs to them."

"Okay. Assuming I find some tree somewhere none of those apply I can sleep in it?"

"Yep, absolutely."

"Thanks. - how should I find out if anyone else has a job for me to do?"

"...Advertise?"