Torogai makes contact with the water creatures of the spirit realm and finds out that Chagum must die in order to protect the egg of the water spirit. Balsa, after realizing that she has not broken her vow, find Torogai in a pool of charcoal oil in a rice terrace and takes her to be treated by Tanda. Torogai has discovered that the official founding history of the magic weavers is false. Shuga learns through the ancient stone scrolls that the egg of the water spirit would bestow blessings of water to the kingdom. Torogai recounts how she escaped from the Knot, where the spirit realm and the world of humans intersect. She is confronted by a fire creature, who chases her within a cave. After passing through an underground river, she is engulfed by a giant worm, which brings her up the rice terrace in the first place. Hibitonan locks Shuga inside the sacred chambers during his studies on the drought sign.