In the chap­ter titled “Dizzy,” twelve-year-old Dizzy Fall grap­ples with the emo­tion­al fall­out of los­ing her best friend Lizard, now Tris­tan, to new­found pop­u­lar­i­ty and a girl­friend, Melin­da. The two had been insep­a­ra­ble, shar­ing secrets and explor­ing the won­ders of exis­tence, with Lizard lean­ing toward nat­ur­al dis­as­ters and Dizzy cap­ti­vat­ed by fan­tas­ti­cal sto­ries of saints and yogis. Their friend­ship faced a seis­mic shift after they shared a brief kiss, which failed to ignite the expect­ed thrill.

At school, while Lizard and Melin­da flaunt their rela­tion­ship, Dizzy feels increas­ing­ly iso­lat­ed, with her usu­al bub­bly self replaced by a sense of despair. As she nav­i­gates through a day filled with humiliation—culminating in a crush­ing dodge­ball inci­dent where Tony Spencer insults her in front of classmates—Dizzy’s emo­tion­al tur­moil push­es her to escape school entire­ly.

She wan­ders away from the hurt only to inad­ver­tent­ly step into traf­fic, seem­ing­ly deter­mined to leave her trou­bles behind. Just as an oncom­ing truck threat­ens her life, a mys­te­ri­ous rain­bow-haired girl appears, push­ing Dizzy out of har­m’s way. Dizzy, in dis­be­lief, finds her­self unharmed, despite the chaos around her. The girl’s inter­ven­tion leaves a last­ing impres­sion on her, embody­ing hope amidst her tur­moil.

After­ward, Dizzy recalls the girl’s vivid appear­ance and the calm­ing feel­ing she induced, unaware that oth­ers can­not see her. The mem­o­ry of the girl, who smelled like magen­ta and radi­at­ed light, lingers bright­ly in Dizzy’s mind. Brought back from the brink, she reflects on her ear­li­er pan­ic, now trans­formed by the girl’s influ­ence, which seemed to van­quish her fears in an instant. No longer just a girl watch­ing life from the side­lines, Dizzy’s brush with mor­tal­i­ty and a poten­tial encounter with a mys­ti­cal sav­ior opens a new chap­ter of pos­si­bil­i­ty in her life.