Chapter 9, Transformer Summary

Bink ends up in a pit with Fanchon, who tells him that she has told Trent that the Shield is located beneath the King's throne-an inaccurate location. Bink thinks that Fanchon reminds him of someone, but he cannot think who it might be. Fanchon knows a lot about Bink, including the nature of his trial and his journey through the Gap and admits that she knew Wynne and Dee. She also admits to having followed him into Mundania because she learned what type of person he was from her two friends. Fanchon says that she left Xanth because she has been changed into an ugly woman through magic and the Good Magician Humphrey told her that the spell's effects might wear off if she were in Mundania, where there is no magic. She has a second reason for wanting to leave...