And indeed, purple goop splats down and hits Avi right in the face.

"Hey, so," Aquila declares from up above, "Turns out pixes explode when you punch them too hard. Who knew!"
"Right."
"This does finally grant you immunity to their forgetting magic, though. About time, frankly."
A disgruntled Avi doesn't say anything.
"...Are you okay?"
"It's just... I think I've owned this shirt for longer than we've known each other."
"If you're okay, could you please go and get the ladder? Because my grip is pretty good, but I'd rather not break something getting down from here."
Avi pieces together that Aquila is, somehow, hanging from the bottom of the tower she'd jumped from. "Oop, right, on it."

End.