However, Itzl Cha could not help but be terrified when she looked down; and so she closed her eyes tightly and held her breath and pressed her little body very close to that of Che, Lord Forest, who had become to her something akin to a haven of refuge. But at last they reached the bottom and once again Lord Forest raised his voice. What he said sounded to Itzl Cha like "Yud, yud!" And that was exactly what it was: "Come, come!"
Very shortly, Itzl Cha heard a sound such as she had never heard before—a sound that no other Uxmalandro had ever heard: the trumpeting of a dragon. By this time, Itzl Cha thought that she had seen all the miracles that there were to be seen in the world, but when a great dragon broke through the forest, toppling the trees that were in his path, little Itzl Cha screamed and fainted. When Itzl Cha regained consciousness, she did not immediately open her eyes. She was conscious of an arm about her, and that her back was resting against a human body; but what caused that strange motion, and what was that rough surface that she straddled with her bare legs?
Fearfully, Itzl Cha opened her eyes; but she immediately screamed and closed them again. She was sitting on the head of that terrible beast she had seen!