scraps meets a repairman who magically fixes the damage and staining she's endured in her recent actions. the exasperated scraps longs to run away from oz entirely, but doesn't know how to cross the deadly desert. the repairman informs her of a weather witch who lives on the highest mountain in oz; she makes weather for the entire earth from her windmill there. scraps decides to get the weather witch to blow her across the desert with wind, and sets out for the mountain.