This chapter opens with a description of the world's largest tree, the "donut peach" . It's a symbol of friendship, love, and beauty, and it's one of the most famous trees in the world. The narrator tells us that the university's world tree club has been keeping track of the glow of the tree during the festival season, which begins on the first day of the school year and ends on the last day. This means that there's about a 50 percent chance that the tree will still be glowing at the end of the festival. Anika and the others have seen a giant dragon fight a bunch of other creatures in the depths of the ocean. They're still waiting for the others to arrive, but they've reached their first goal. They can't believe how gross it is that they're standing around looking at all the other creatures when they should be running around fighting the giant lizard. They don't know how to fight the lizard, so they just run around it.