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Håkon let his tail drop, and the water spider collapsed back into the river with a dull crash.

He looked back at the water spider, then at Anya again.

His tail swished, and the water spider swayed back and forth.

If you want to see, say, “Mr. Dough and the Egg Princess” or “Water Spider Monmon,” there’s only one theater in the world where you can see them.

Ten species found here exist nowhere else in the United States—the rattail orchid, the crooked-spur orchid, the dwarf epidendrum, the twisted orchid, Gale’s orchid, the false water spider, Harris’s tiny orchid, the hidden orchid, the small-flowered maxillaria, and the frosted-flower orchid.