The title of this chapter comes from chapter 22 of the original book, The Transformation of Old Mombi, which is where Mombi transforms from a flower to a shadow to a black ant to a griffin to her true human form. That's not in this story because it wouldn't really work with the changes I've made.

So, this chapter is entirely original to Yellow Brick Ramble. There's a tiny bit from the first book and a few other Oz references, but mostly this chapter blurs the line between adaptation and alternate reality fan fiction.