Up the river, to the north, accompanied by a living ship and a silver-blue dragon, the Ball of Moolkin is making its way - the last of the tribe whom the prophet with golden eyes managed to gather. This is an extremely difficult and dangerous path, but the snake people cannot survive if they do not reach the nesting site, where they can overwinter in saving cocoons and give birth to offspring. But even if the goal is achieved and new dragons hatch from the cocoons, who will undertake to protect and care for them, helpless and unreasonable, in a war-torn world?