Hesitantly, the boy looks at the bush wizard whom he came to in order to rectify his grief. The bush wizard, now naked before him, offers him a bowl. The boy takes it and drinks it. He thinks about the magic of everything, how it was magic in his town which allowed him to escape from the mundanity of everyday life, though his parents were opposed to it, as it had no practical utility for their survival. He then thinks about how, one day, traders came to their town, where two moons hang, and spread diseases to everyone, despite a minority’s call for quarantining; his parents, too, became infected and died.

The bush wizard gives the boy another bowl, which he drinks. He then passes out, as his body feels nothingness, and falls into a dream. Back then, when his parents die, the boy is filled with grief and wants to do all he can in order to bring them back. He wonders if magic can do it. He hears, from village hunters, about the bush wizard who practices very powerful magic. Though no one has ever seen him recently, the boy goes out of town to find him and eventually stumbles upon him. He asks him for help to bring back his parents. The bush wizard asks for seven goats. Hesitantly, the boy fetches the goats from his house.

When the boy finally wakes up, he is outside, in the flatlands. The bush wizard tells him to look around. He sees nothing but the two moons in the sky. There are mounds everywhere. These are the graves where the dead have been buried. The bush wizard hands the boy a shovel and tells him to dig up his parents, all the while he asks him why he isn’t married yet. The boy says he had one woman but let her go because he wasn’t into her. The bush wizard briefly lambastes him for not being an adult. After the boy’s parents are dug up, the bush wizard tells him to sprinkle powder in their mouths and cut open his hand so that his blood can fall onto them. He does, and they part ways for the day. The bush wizard tells the boy that his parents will return when they’re ready. Feeling foolish about what he’s done, the boy saunters home with one extra goat that the bush wizard left him.

In bed, the boy thinks that magic isn’t really all that real and that he has made a fool of himself. Outside, however, in the pen where two goats are, he sees his parents hunched over their bodies. They reunite with each other, and his parents ask if there’s something to eat. Caught in a hug, his parents feed on him.