 After the events of "Son of a Witch", Elphaba's orphaned bastard son Liir places his infant daughter into Glinda's care, and enchants her skin color so it loses its green tint.Rain grows up as an ignored servant girl, but when Glinda acquires the Grimmerie and the Emerald City soldiers begin to show interest in Rain, Glinda knows it's time to part with them both.Glinda leaves the book and the girl in the charge of a company of a traveling puppet show, called the Clock of the Time Dragon.