"Neena? Neena." Holly flew into Neena's flower. "Oh, Neena, I just saw the most incredible thing above the canopy. A whole other world. The sky went on forever. And way over in the distance as far as I could see, there was this enormous rock like a..."
"Mountain." Neena said. "That was Mount Warning."
"And next to it was a... a..." Holly said. "I don't know. It looked like a strange black cloud rising out of the earth."
"Smoke, I should think." Neena said.
What's smoke?" Holly said.
"Oh, there are many things in our world you don't yet know about, Holly." Neena said. "There are worlds within worlds, Holly. Everything in our world is connected by the delicate strands of the web of life, which is balanced between forces of destruction...and the magic forces of creation."
Neena held out a glowing seed and placed it on a rotten log. "Help it grow."
Holly placed her hands on the seed and concentrated her magic, but she failed.
"Why can't I do it?" Holly wondered.
"Everyone can call on the magic powers of the web of life." Neena said. You have to find it in yourself."
"I want to, Neena." Holly said. "You know I do. But I was thinking about that smoke. Do you think it could be... the Nexus?"
"No, there isn't a force in nature that could release him, and there are no poisons here on which he can feed." Neena said. "The Nexus is trapped for all time. Now that's enough for today."
"But what could have caused the smoke?" Holly asked.
"Now, now, now, off with you." Neena said.
"But, Neena..." Holly said.