Sections 24, pages 323- 343 Summary

In the last few sections of the novel, Blimunda gets worried when three days pass and Baltasar misses the sanctification and opening of the convent. She decides to travel to try and find Baltasar, and goes along out into the high serra where she attempts to avoid the dangers of other travellers and wild beasts.

When she finally finds the resting place of the Passarola she sees Baltasar's things thrown onto the ground, and the space that the airship made in the canopy as it ascended its last flight. Suddenly terrified, she searches the landscape around to see if Baltasar has crashed somewhere nearby and is injured. Unfortunatly, she comes across a Dominican Friar as night falls, who tells her that no such man or flying bird has been seen, but that a ruined convent is nearby to his...