They set out to a place with a bunch of old rocks, which is where Tiffany hopes to find the doorway to the Queen's land.At this news, Rob Anybody looks a lot more cheerful-it will literally take millions of years for the bird to accomplish this.When the bird has worn the mountain down to a grain of sand, she'll marry him. She tells Rob Anybody that she accepts his proposal (which he seems really miserable about), and then says that there's a huge mountain at the end of the world where a tiny bird flies all the way to the rock once a year to wipe its beak. She goes back in and decides that there is a way to get out of it.She tells them that she has to go outside for a moment to decide, whereupon she calls the toad frantically. Tiffany is completely horrified, and she has to think about how to get out of it for a moment.When she asks Rob Anybody about it, he tells her that it is clan rules that the new kelda has to choose someone from the clan to marry and then name the day that they're going to wed.Then she hears them talking about her… they're saying things about how she's big, and that she'll be able to have a lot of kids, and something about how she'll 'choose' Rob Anybody.

Tiffany spends some time talking to the pictsies about where the Queen was last seen, and then she goes back into the mound, where Rob Anybody offers her a cup of tea.One of the pictsies explains to Tiffany that all the Feegles are quiet right now because they're mourning their mother, and the reason that Fion can't become the kelda of this clan is because she cannot marry one of her brothers.The whole hall grows silent, and Tiffany again recalls the day that Granny Aching died and how she was the one who found her. The kelda tells Tiffany where to find Wentworth then quietly passes away.Then the kelda prepares to die-but first she wants some of that Special Sheep Liniment. Because Fion is so angry, Tiffany agrees.

Tiffany will have to do the thinking for all the boys.

Fion, the kelda's daughter, is upset, but the kelda tells her that a daughter cannot run her mother's clan, and that it's only temporary anyway.The kelda says that she cannot hang on much longer, and that she'll agree to a trade: if she points Tiffany in the direction she needs to travel in order to find the Queen, then Tiffany has to take over as kelda. Apparently the Queen steals children because she has none of her own, and she dotes on them and gives them only what they want-which means that in Wentworth's case, he will grow up with only sweets, which isn't good.She meets the kelda, and they talk about how her brother is safe, but there's evil in that too the kelda says that she can tell that Tiffany has the First Sights and the Second Thoughts.When Tiffany enters the room filled with gold, she starts thinking of all sorts of fancy dictionary words to describe the place.

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