Part I, Chapter 19, Aomame Summary

Aomame is endeared by "Air Chrysalis", especially by its simple, flowing language and logic. In the story, the Little People appear through a dead goat's mouth. They use whatever passageways they can find. The entreat the girl, punished with isolation for letting the goat die, to help them pluck threads from the air to make a chrysalis for what is coming. The girl asks what is coming and the Little People tell her she will find out. They work for days, but still they will not tell the little girl what will come out of the chrysalis. As she reads, Aomame senses a sort of inner illness caused by the Little People. The girl is released from her isolation and the Little People come to her in her dream to tell her to come to the storehouse...