Here comes the summary for episode 4!
Into the cave
An elder rat orders the others to stand down and invites the bloom gang to tea.
- Some mercenaries had come by recently. One was a weasel in a red hood: Cruelclaw. He led Maha to the swamp outside.
- Cruelclaw stole an egg of a Calamity Beast, which could be how he’s able to control them.
- Mabel 🐭 is determined to return the egg.
With encouragement from Zoraline 🦇, Helga 🐸 tries to meditate to get a vision of where Cruelclaw’s band went.
Fountainport. The home of King Glarb and her “greatest failure” under him.
Through the dandelions
The gang leaves for Fountainport. They take a shortcut through a dangerous dandelion field.
Ral 🦦 opens up a bit. He admits he’s a foreigner and that he misses his husband. He’s never had someone to miss before.
A storm is coming.
That’s not a Calamity Beast
A giant flying creature emerges from the storm clouds. It’s a four-winged hawk-bat, like what Helga drew in episode 1. She thought it was the Sun Hawk, but Ral calls it a dragon.1
They try to sneak past, but the dragon notices them and attacks. Zoraline screeches to disorient it, and with Finneas’s 🐰 conductive arrow, Ral tases the dragon, driving it off.
Luckily, no one’s hurt. Ral dismisses the storm and they continue on.
[1] The dragon seems to have been transformed by Bloomburrow’s “animal rule”.
“May I ask where you hail from?” Finneas asked.
“Far away,” Ral replied.
“The Outer Woods?”
“Farther.”