Episode Seven: “Pip and the Extremely Useless Hat”

Pip is properly introduced — appearing from a blackberry bush, producing items from his ears including the sun hat Danica claims for the rest of the series. The group travels to Coral's eucalyptus to get information about the Wind Crystal and Dion. Coral tells the girls that Dion visited the garden for years before they were born, that he left her a box for the girls (*For S & D*), and that he has been in the Crystal Archive in Luminos for six years, researching the Dissonance. The group crosses the Tangled Middle — featuring the pixies' bow-branch arch — to reach the base of the great tōtara. Ember is discovered sleeping in a clearing with her marshmallow hoard, and joins the group immediately and permanently. She has information about Dion — she came from Luminos six weeks earlier through a small crack.