Section 11: Chapter 12 & Chapter 13 Summary

In Chapter 12: Flight, Magda, Stob and Xanth are already dressed in their green flight suits when Rook wakes the next morning. Excited for his first flight, Rook dresses hurriedly and joins the others. Because their flight instructor is late, Stob suggests a flight around the lake, and the others readily agree; however, the event proves disastrous as Stob crashes, and Magda and Rook fall into the lake. The most successful pilot is Xanth until he crashes on his landing and breaks his leg as their flight instructor, Varis Lodd, appears. Six months later, Rook soars above Lake Landing during his final flight, saying his goodbyes to each of his tutors. He has also become very close to Varis in the prior months, but as she and Parsimmon wish Rook, Magda and Stob success on their treatise-journeys, two guards arrive...