The narrator tells us that the trial art team has decided to postpone hibernation for a third time this winter. The narrator says that he's been sleeping too much lately, and he can't stand it anymore. He and the others are in the Yellow Forest, which has been a long, long time since the last snow fell. They've been putting off hibernation for thousands of years, the narrator says, and now they're finally going to let the kids sleep first. He says he used to be with blue and topaz, but now he doesn't call them by their names. He asks the narrator's sensei for help, and the two of them arrive in the forest.