- Micah runs and runs until he reaches town and can look for a magician in the crowded market.
- He sees an old lady in a black robe selling herbs, and he begs her to come and help his mother.
- The old lady ignores him at first, until people in the crowd start shouting that clearly he needs her help.
- She grasps his hand, and he notices her dirty yellowed fingernails, which he'll remember from then on.