Turning into butterflies would be so useful! But Alice looks tired and she's overheard people talking about how those with magic were struggling more in this world. So...

They had to be fast.

She scrambled backwards, up to a higher branch and took out the blowpipe.

She had no idea if sleeping poison would work on spiders but there was only one way to find out. She fires and then scrambles again as sticky web flies towards her.