[Patience can feel the mouse's slight weight and shifting feet on the exposed skin of her snout and face, but up nearer the top of her head, the grayish horns or ridges that extend down her nose? Nope, the tougher more keratinized stuff up there is just too thick. She already knows she can't feel most insects on the rest of her, if they can even get past the extended scales or quills or whatever she's covered in. This is really weird, and she thought she'd gotten used to this body and its eccentricities.]

Yeah, yeah... Make sure you actually hang on, if you fall off it's going to be a bear finding you again.

[Slowly at first, Patience casts around the chamber, scenting and looking for things she could do, trying not to step on the brooms marching under the surface of the water.]

You know how to start a fire?