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The Wandering Dune is the fifth book in the Fillory and Further series, written by Christopher Plover.

History[]

In the beginning of the story, Helen and Jane Chatwin are painting in a field near their home in Cornwall, England when they’re brought to Fillory.[2] On entering Fillory the two girls encounter a mysterious sand dune being blown through the kingdom, all by itself. They climb the dune and find themselves riding it through the green Fillorian countryside and on out into a dreamy desert wasteland in the far south, where they spend most of the rest of the book.

Later, when Jane Chatwin was alone in Fillory for the first time by herself, a Lorian attacked her and stabbed her with the Virgo Blade, a cursed blade that caused rose vines to grow from its wounds. She was taken care of by a talking bear named Honeyclaw who explained that the vines would continue to grow until they strangled her heart. However, Jane survived by exploiting a loophole in the curse using a doll given to her by her mother before she died, her only reminder of her family and life on Earth, whivh she was able to burn as a substitute for her heart, causing the vines to turn to ash.[3]

Jane and Rupert Chatwin meet a talking dromedary named Cameltoes who mentions a world between worlds before vanishing.[4]

Later in the story, High-bound, the captain of the Windswept, brings Helen and Jane aboard his ship. When Jane is bed-ridden by a bad cold for a week, she spends a week talking with the ship’s Drawing Master. At the end of voyage, High-bound gives the girls a small brass-bound chest containing five Magical Buttonss for each of the Chatwin children that would take the wearer from Earth to Fillory and back again at will. Helen, believing the buttons to be an affront to Ember and Umber, argued that the buttons made their adventures in Fillory meaningless and mechanical by breaking the perceived notion that they had to earn the right to visit Fillory, and hid the buttons in a dried up well near their aunt's house..[5][6]

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