Chapter 12 Summary

When Uncle Jolyon's taxi arrives, Martya helps Hayley, Troy, Harmony, Fiddle, and Merope escape. She commands her hut to grow legs and carry them away. The hut travles through the mythosphere , through forests, deserts, across roads and through industrial complexes. It eventually crashes through a wall in a building. Flute, Hayley and Merope leave the hut and enter the building in search of Hayley's father Cyrus. When they find him, his guard, a woman continuously feeding him piles of paper to work on, won't allow him to leave. Merope admits to being the daughter of Atlas and commands that all of the unjustly held prisoners be released. During the ensuing chaos, the group escapes back to the hut with Cyrus in tow.

Martya commands the hut to leave, but it is blocked by Uncle Jolyon's taxi. He tells them that they will all...