“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
In their ongoing search for the Flame Champion, Geddoe and his companions come to the village of bug users' community that once belonged to the Grasslands. There, Aila befriends a girl who wants to hear about the Grasslands. Meanwhile, Geddoe crosses path