Here comes the summary for episode 4!
Into the cave
An elder rat orders the others to stand down and invites the bloom gang to tea.
- Some mercenaries had come by recently. One was a weasel in a red hood: Cruelclaw. He led Maha to the swamp outside.
- Cruelclaw stole an egg of a Calamity Beast, which could be how he's able to control them.
- Mabel ๐ญ is determined to return the egg.
With encouragement from Zoraline ๐ฆ, Helga ๐ธ tries to meditate to get a vision of where Cruelclaw's band went.
Fountainport. The home of King Glarb and her "greatest failure" under him.
Through the dandelions
The gang leaves for Fountainport. They take a shortcut through a dangerous dandelion field.
Ral ๐ฆฆ opens up a bit. He admits he's a foreigner and that he misses his husband. He's never had someone to miss before.
A storm is coming.
That's not a Calamity Beast
A giant flying creature emerges from the storm clouds. It's a four-winged hawk-bat, like what Helga drew in episode 1. She thought it was the Sun Hawk, but Ral calls it a dragon.^1^
They try to sneak past, but the dragon notices them and attacks. Zoraline screeches to disorient it, and with Finneas's ๐ฐ conductive arrow, Ral tases the dragon, driving it off.
Luckily, no one's hurt. Ral dismisses the storm and they continue on.
[1] The dragon seems to have been transformed by Bloomburrow's "animal rule".
"May I ask where you hail from?" Finneas asked.
"Far away," Ral replied.
"The Outer Woods?"
"Farther."