A day later, both Toomai's parents are still sick. Even though they can still communicate to him by the distance, they both cough hard. As such, they have contacted some mysterious illness, which possibly comes from fellow humans constructing roads by denuding parts of the great Mysuru Jungle of their trees, leading the angsty fruit bats to transmit diseases to them via other animals.

That's when the Anglo-Indian, biracial Peterson Sahib appears. He had ironically been a hunter of many animals like Bengal tigers, Indian leopards and Indian Elephants, until they are mostly gone, while the mysterious illness spreads around the region by intensive road construction and human wildlife conflicts, so he is reluctantly here to guide Toomai as he is becoming a mahout to Kala Nag.

Sahib and his Hyderabadi Dakhini friend Appa are trying to teach Toomai how to handle Kala Nag, but the angsty old elephant may disagree, as she was orphaned by a previous human wildlife conflict further north.