You freeze in anticipation, clinging to the tree as you look down at the pond.

The frog's eyes flick open and lock onto your position. Being half-way up the tree, you have **** but to keep climbing as quickly and safely as you can. As you hastily scramble for hand and footholds, your foot slips off the tree's moist wood, threatening to send you tumbling back to the ground! You just barely manage to grab another branch on your descent and stop your fall.

At the same moment you start to fall, a greenish blur rockets past you and smashes into the tree trunk just above you! You realize it was the frog's tongue - it just barely missed you and latched onto the tree instead. Just as quickly the tongue retracts, ripping away several branches with it. The frog struggles to swallow the mass of rough wood it inadvertently caught, giving you the opening you need!

You quickly scale the rest of the tree and spring off it to the wall next to you, slowly pulling yourself up over the edge. As you do, a second impact smashes into the wall behind you - another near miss! You tumble down onto a bush that's thankfully large enough to break your fall. Twisting round, you try to prepare yourself for a follow-up **** - but you don't hear anything else from the frog's side of the wall. It seems that you are safe for the moment.

You get back to your feet and look around the courtyard - the tower is finally within reach.