Chapter 9 — The Council of Elders Convenes and Achieves Nothing

1 Chimi and the Firewood That Started Everything 

2 The Cave with Excellent Feng Shui 

3 Chapter 3 — A Committee Was Expecting Her 

4 Chapter 4 — Nobody Explains Anything Properly, Ever 

5 Chapter 5 — The World Tree Sonam, Looking Rough 

6 Chapter 6 — "You Are the Chosen Waterer" / "The Chosen What?" 

7 Chapter 7 — A Crash Course in a Magic System with No Rules 

8 Chapter 8 — Chimi Meets Norbu, Wizard's Apprentice, Professionally Useless 

9 Chapter 9 — The Council of Elders Convenes and Achieves Nothing 

10 Chapter 10 — Chimi Goes Home for Dinner, One Second Later 

11 PART TWO — WELCOME TO A WORLD WITH NO DIRT 

12 Chapter 12 — Chimi Asks "Where Do You Even Get Water" and Regrets It 

13 Chapter 13 — The Sacred Well That Is Actually Just Decorative 

14 Chapter 14 — Norbu Tries to Magic Up Fertilizer and It Goes Badly 

15 Chapter 15 — Chimi Diagnoses the Tree Like a Village Auntie 

16 Chapter 16 — The Archmage Karma Is Deeply Offended by Shovels 

17 Chapter 17 — A Tour of Lhayul's Deeply Impractical Floating Farms 

18 Chapter 18 — Illusioned Food: Delicious, Nutritionally Empty, A Metaphor 

19 Chapter 19 — Chimi Demands an Actual Bucket 

20 Chapter 20 — The First (Disastrous) Watering Attempt 

21 PART THREE — THE QUEST FOR TOPSOIL BEGINS 

22 Chapter 22 — Meet Tandin, the One Person in Lhayul Who's Curious About Anything 

23 Chapter 23 — The Roads of Lhayul Are Made of Enchantment and Bad Decision 

24 Chapter 24 — A Village of Cloud-Farmers Who've Never Touched Ground 

25 Chapter 25 — Chimi Explains Compost; Lhayul Recoils in Horror 

26 Chapter 26 — The Goat That Is Also Somehow a Bureaucrat 

27 Chapter 27 — Norbu's Spellbook Has a Chapter on Everything Except Soil 

28 Chapter 28 — The Bog of Mildly Confused Spirits 

29 Chapter 29 — Chimi Teaches Tandin to Dig a Hole (A Milestone) 

30 Chapter 30 — Karma Sends Saboteurs, Who Are Bad at Their Jobs 