She just sighed. "Magic can perform many wonders, but getting you to take a joke seems to not be one of them." Not that Alister hadn't proven to have his own 'special' brand of humor, but really, he got so uptight when it came to magic. Really, she'd used hearts in magic like six times tops, and only one had been human, and he'd been the one to ask her to use it in the first place to save his soul. Was that so wrong?

"Nothing like that. We have to get it to put three of its tentacles in the right three holes in the wall." She eyes the Flump, which for the moment seems content to just float there. "And try not to let it spit acid on us."