Chapter 4, An Iff and a Butt Summary

Iff pulls out a handful of miniature birds. Haroun selects a tiny crested hoopoe, which Iff tosses out the window to grow as large as a double-bed. Haroun and Iff hop on and fly into the sky. When Haroun wonders how a bird can fly this fast, the hoopoe in a booming voice like Butt's insists that machines require respect. Haroun is uncomfortable with having his mind read. They are bound for Earth's second moon, which travels too fast to be detected and constantly varies its orbit to pass over every spot on earth to provide Story Water. They land in an ocean brilliantly colored and steaming. They watch for extra-bright patches of ocean, "Wishwater." Iff fills a crystal bottle, telling Haroun that the harder he wishes after sipping the water, the better...