To the Grinning Valley
The Doctor and Amiya return to Rim Billiton, and together with Savage
they brush past their past journey, but unexpectedly run into a truck crashing a gate.
Can the Feranmut chaser find the light she was looking for...?
- Boiling Point (Interlude)The transport truck will soon make its last trip. Warmy works with Alanna to prepare their truck to be returned. However, still attached to the truck, she is hoping to delay its return. Almost as if in answer to her prayers, a strange passenger hijacks the truck and demands to be taken to the Grinning Valley.
- One-way Tracks (Interlude)Alanna contends with the truckjacker and cajoles her into bringing the truck to a checkpoint to call for help, but security officers want to board the truck to check for Infected. She pleads in vain in to protect Warmy, and ends up charging through the checkpoint gates with the truckjacker's help.
- Running Bottletree (Interlude)The ragtag band of accomplices stops at a nomadic platform for supplies en route to the Grinning Valley. The skittish and terrified Jerry is worried that a certain someone might catch up to him after he skipped out on his engagement, and is equally scared that the security officers from the checkpoint are out to get him. During the wild chase, he happens to find himself hiding with a woman, and the two develop feelings for each other.
- Hammer Down (Interlude)Warmy's Originium Arts suddenly go out of control in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, they happen to run into Amiya, the Doctor, and Savage after their trip down memory lane. When the incident subsides, the Rhodes Island group decides to tag along on the journey to the Grinning Valley in search of a 'Feranmut.' Ray, afraid of Warmy losing control again, finally opens her heart.
- Grinning Mineshaft (Interlude)As a pitsinker, Ray works year-round in extremely oppressive environments. When her working sandbeast passes away, she sets off in a daze, seeking out the Feranmut. Once she breaks free of her dark memories, she spots a habitat with a population of lively wild sandbeasts, who bring her to a deep, secluded cave.
- Stepped-on Shadow (Interlude)The road to the Grinning Valley is blocked by Originium formations, and the gang has no choice but to return empty-handed. Ray voluntarily joins Rhodes Island and tells the story of her encounter with the Feranmut when she was a child. However, Amiya glimpses the memory of somebody else from that story.