After you finish dropping off your luggage in your room at the Castello dei Animorphs, you take a walk around the grounds. You walk through a nice, lush meadow dotted with wildflowers and clover. Up ahead, you can see where the meadow turns into the woods, and you notice something odd in one of the trees.

You skip over there, light on your feet. When you get to the tree, you can finally make out what it is; it's a tree house. And not just any tree house;this looks like it's straight out of Swiss Family Robinson or something. A hawk is perched on the roof of one of the rooms. <Hey! Come on up!> you hear a voice say. The only creature in sight is the hawk.

<Don't worry, the ladder's safe, even though I hardly ever use it. The others do, though, so I know it's okay for you to climb up on it. I'm Tobias, or as Marco likes to call me, Bird-boy.>

You say hello, and proceed to climb up to the treehouse. But once you finally get up there, Tobias has to leave. <I almost forgot, I'm supposed to take some people sky-diving and then hang-gliding in a little while. I gotta make sure everything's set. You're welcome to come join us if you want. Or you can just hang out here. I'll be around later.> With that, Tobias flies off and leaves you free to look around his treehouse...