When he was younger, he wasn't ugly enough, and everyone hated him for it. Bortag tells Billina he is from the town of Glun, where everyone is extremely ugly. She calls Drox they begin riding him towards the castle. They teleport to the castle.īortag wants to walk through the life-destroying desert after being spurned, but Billina convinces him to go to the castle. The magic picture loses the image and Valynn realizes that Oz is beginning to lose its magic. Bortag tries to tell the old woman that he loves her, but she steals the apples and performs a spell to transport herself to the tree.
Professor Wogglebug informs them that it is the wicked witch of the south. They look for Bortag in the picture and find him in the desert, feeding an apple to an old woman.
They discover that some of the apples have been stolen. Ozma looks through the magic picture to learn more about the enchanted apples. Meanwhile, at the castle, Valynn tells her story to Ozma. Scarecrow and Billina try to stop him, but Scarecrow is knocked away and Billina is thrown into his pouch.
He rides in on Drox, a flying swordfish, to steal the apples. Dorothy uses her magic belt to transport her to the Emerald City.īortag hasn't forgotten about the apples, proclaiming that his magic powers worked well enough this time to alert him that the apples are back. Valynn is worried about leaving the tree, but Scarecrow and Billina agree to stand guard. Dorothy tells Valynn that Queen Ozma may be able to help her. After one hundred years, she couldn't stand being alone in limbo, so she re-cast the spell, believing that Bortag had given up, to end it. Valynn says that the existence of the apples were once well known, but she had to cast a spell transporting the castle, herself and the tree into limbo after a magician named Bortag tried to steal some of the apples. One apple is silver and holds the power of Valynn's existence. The apples are golden and have the power to break any enchantment. The tree has been growing since the creation of Oz and Valynn reveals that if the apples are picked or if the tree died, all the enchantment would disappear from Oz. Exploring the castle, they find a woman named Valynn, who has been tasked with guarding an enchanted apple tree. 1.3 Chapter 3: Bortag's Unfortunate Pastĭorothy Gale, along with the Scarecrow and Billina, discover a castle that has materialized in front of them.
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