The courtyard of Terp's castle contains a magic muffin tree, guarded by a fierce unnamed monster that has an elephant's body, an alligator's tail, and two heads: a nocturnal owl and a diurnal wolf. In the night, Percy is able to help Jam and friends escape the tower, with the aid of a handy grapevine. Jam and his pets flee, though Percy doubles back to steal one of the magic muffins. On the Gillikin plains, Jam and friends are menaced by the Equinots, hostile centaurs; Percy frightens away the Equinots when he eats some of the magic muffin, and grows to ten times his normal size.
