Summary

Fillory - Quentin, Alice, Penny, Josh, Anais, Richard, Janet, and Eliot travel to the Neitherlands, and then to Fillory. It makes Janet weak, but nobody knows why. They travel through the woods and near a stream, where they find a water nymph. The nymph tells the group they are cursed, the war is not theirs, and gives them an ivory horn to use if needed when all hope seems lost.

They continue on, nearly being shot by a crossbow wielded by a praying mantis in a horse-drawn carriage. They begin to wonder who is on whose side, and what war is going on. Richard things they should leave Fillory. Alice says they should stay and piece together clues as to what is happening. They decide to follow a female tree.

Humbledrum – The walking birch tree leads them to an inn. There, an old...