Time seemed to pass slowly as they waited for Witch Princess to return from helping Kevin find a blue wonderful, which to them was the hardest part next to waiting for the tulips to grow. Wizard helped him catch the Tuna easily, especially since Kevin didn't use the Gull Islands to fish for it. When he reported back, he said nothing interesting happened, just standing there and waiting for a tuna to come so he could pull it towards Kevin's bob. However, things were far more interesting when Witch Princess returned. Once she teleported back, she was covered in dirt and soot. Looking absolutely exhausted, she fell right over and landed face first. Wizard and Molly ran over to her to help, and she only said, "Just leave me to die."
Once they got her up, and Wizard helped her healing process, she began to tell the story. She understood when she agreed to help Kevin that her magic would be quite funky and might take an interesting turn, but all three of them knew that sending Molly in there would be an even bigger risk for their discovery than sending in Witch Princess, who was invisible automatically. So when Wizard saw that he was in the cave, she teleported to Ganache Mine, ready to help. "I saw what you meant by feeling weird. I don't normally go near that stuff, so I'm not used to it.
"Well anyway, we continued down the mine, and he was as dumb as a sack of bricks. Do you know how many times he fell down the pitfalls?" Molly sweated a little, as she's quite guilty of doing so as well. "I kept having to leap after him, but thankfully, I can see in the dark pretty well. I don't think he could, it's probably why he kept falling. So we keep going on, right? I don't know what kind of trip he was on, but it certainly wasn't just for blue wonderful. I feared he might fill up his rucksack. We went down to at least 25 levels, I think. It's where things started to go wrong.
"Well, I walk around a little bit, and I see all sorts of wonderfuls. Nothing really piques my interest since farmers usually ships off products for me to go—" She looked to Molly and continued nervously, "—and buy wholesomely, and with 100% money." Molly glared at her for a few seconds, but sighed and said, "It doesn't matter. What happened?"
"Well, I finally see a blue rock, and it has the perfect wonderful in it. I wasn't sure if there was anything I could do to get his attention so he didn't fill up his rucksack all the way and leave without it, so I try making a small attempt at doing something to get his attention—"
"You used magic?!" Wizard barked.
"I know, I know, I shouldn't have, but I couldn't let him leave after spending hours in that dumb cave, so I try to… brighten it up." Wizard groaned and threw his head into his hands. "Why do I think I can guess what happened?"
"Because my attempt at brightening it ended up with the rock exploding and having the impact move across nearly the entire level."
Wizard and Molly's jaws dropped at the same time. "Exploded?!" Wizard screamed. "Is he alive?" Molly asked worried.
"Well, his body didn't really take it well, if that's what you mean. Neither did mine though. I was absolutely writhing in pain, and I was stuck in fetal position for a bit, but then I saw him bruised up and bleeding in the corner, unconscious. So I crawled over there, but paused because I saw that the blue wonderful made it out intact. So I grabbed it, threw some other wonderful out of his rucksack and placed it in there, then got to work trying to heal him. It was hard trying to do it here, where the magical energy is flowing peculiarly heavy, but in a cave where my magic has no control, it's hard."
Wizard could relate; he remembered how hard it was to help Molly recover in the cave, but he managed to do it after a lot of effort. "It just came down to a point where I really had to focus on something, anything. I don't know why, but… I thought of my forest. I missed it a lot." Wizard thought of Molly at that point, and focused on her. "It took a lot of time and I had to fix a lot of mistakes, but eventually, most of his nearly mortal wounds healed and he woke up. He limped out of there, a bit frightened about what happened, and I followed. I wasn't about to accidentally kill myself by trying my hand at healing in that cave. So I limped out of all 25 levels, and when I got back to an area where it was a lot easier to control my magic, I came over as fast as I could."
Wizard sighed, "That was extremely reckless… and you could have blown the whole operation… but… he has the wonderful. As long as he's alive, that matters." She moaned standing up and announced, "Well, I need to hit the hay. I am absolutely exhausted, and I am in just in-CREDible pain. Later." She walked slowly for her tent, and lied down.
"He has tuna, and as long as she saw everything correctly, he has a blue wonderful. I should probably find him and help him with his healing." He tracked Kevin only to find him in Jin's office. "Oh, no." He immediately possessed Jin, and got to work.
"You did quite a number on yourself. What happened?" Wizard asked as Jin.
"I can't say I'm really sure. As far as I could tell, it was a bad cave-in. But, I can't say I saw rubble, so I don't know." Wizard felt a wave of relief come over him. There was no suspicion of magic. "Sounds quite frightening. I'm going to rub this salve onto your wounds and give you a medication. I want you to take it easy for a while after this." Kevin nodded, and fake Jin began rubbing it. "Just to warn you… it burns", he cautioned while Kevin was seething with pain. "You're very lucky to make it out of there alive. People have died in cave-ins."
"I know. But Jin… it's nearly done…"
He raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is?"
"The rainbows. I'm so close to bringing back the Harvest Goddess."
He smiled and said, "Very good. I wish you best of luck."
"Thanks. I'm really close."
Fake Jin smiled, and continued to rub the salve. Once he finished, he handed him the medication and said, "Obviously, you should stay away from the mines for a while." Kevin nodded and said, "Thanks, Jin. You've been a huge help." He walked out the door and sat Jin down, then Wizard relinquished control and returned to the campsite.
"He told me about the rainbows nearly being finished. All we need to do… is to wait for the tulips. I could try making something grow in the flowers… to attract bees. If I cloak you… could you follow Kevin… to make sure he gets the lapis refined?" Molly nodded and said, "I'll find you when I come back… and teleport you to the campsite… when you and I think there's nothing more for you to do."
"All right. Cloak me then."
After applying the cloak, Molly was taken straight to Kevin, who was running by Maple Lake, probably trying to make it to the blacksmith. After Wizard disappeared, she chased after him to the blacksmith, in which he made it just in time to refine. However, he closed the door too quick for Molly to follow without things looking suspicious, and so she waited.
It took about 15 minutes before Kevin's wonderfuls and ore were finally refined. She followed him to the shipping bin nearby and watched him ship his items. He pulled out each item one-by-one, and place it in there. She didn't expect him, however, to pull out the lapis lazuli Witch Princess nearly died over. Her heart starting beating nervously, hoping that he didn't place the death jewel in that bin.
Of course, her hopes sank along with her heart.
After shipping everything refined, he walked back to his farm, satisfied. She was met by Wizard, who teleported her back to the campsite.
"Wizard, did you…?"
"Yes…"
"Do you have any idea what to do? We can't send Witch Princess back in there."
"I know…"
