The narrator wonders if it's just a crystal ball. He guesses that someone else fell into it and left it there. Laura and Pier know that the narrator went out for them, so they're going to come for him. The narrator is glad that he's here with her, because it would be miserable if he were alone. They'll figure out a way to get back to the house when the day's over, he says, and they'll have a nice nap. He tells us that he had a dream the night before, in which a little kid told him that he was lost in the woods. After he woke up, he hurried to get Laura and went into the woods with her. He thinks that pier is too worried about him, because there's only one forest in the whole world, so it wasn't difficult to find him. He's going to try