Section 12: Chapter 14 & Chapter 15 Summary

In Chapter 14: Fever, Rook alternates between wakefulness and sleep while Tweezel tends his injury. Magda and Stob tell him goodbye before leaving for their treatise-journeys, and before returning to the Tower of Night, Xanth visits Rook to admit that he is a traitor and that he set up the attack at the Foundry Glade. He also mentions returning to his friend Cowlquape. Several weeks later, Rook is healed, so he prepares to leave for his treatise-journey, unable to believe it has finally begun.

In Chapter 15: Wumeru, Rook hopes that "perhaps today will be the day" (page 265) as he sets out again for three months while searching for banderbears. He keeps records of everything he sees in his treatise-log, but he has yet to encounter an elusive banderbear. When he comes upon a stream with banderbear footprints, he waits for...