A Snake Falls to Earth

Oli helps Reign design a dress by serving as a mannequin for her. Risk, for the first time, is not with her twin; she has started spending time with Zale, a coyote-wolf hybrid who, like the rest of his pack, smuggles books from Earth and transcribes them before they disappear.

Oli and Reign are confronted by a grizzly person sent to collect a bounty on Oli: Bruhn demands that Oli apologize in person and compensate her for her foot. The grizzly bear’s compensation from Bruhn is a meal. Oli makes a counteroffer: In exchange for the return of his blanket, Oli will give the bear two meals and Bruhn a written apology. Reign is offended and picks a fight with the grizzly person, but before it gets too bloody, Oli breaks it up by using world-shaping to dump some water from the lake over the pair’s heads. The grizzly bear accepts the bounty and promises to return. Reign, Oli, and Ami move Oli’s camp so that Bruhn can’t find it.

The grizzly returns in autumn with a blanket. Oli’s mother made the blanket, but it is not his. The blanket belongs to his sibling, Wist. The bear found the blanket in Redstone City.