Not one to give up too easily, Lili picked herself up again and dusted herself off and made another run at the hill. The creature who had accosted her the first time poked its cord at her again. Lili was about to shove the cord away again when she realized that the creature was not trying to attack her with it. It wanted her help.

Lili was still unnerved by these tiny beings who swarmed like ants and spun rope like spiders, but she was beginning to see now what they were attempting to do. Where the beings had succeeded in laying their net, the ground no longer moved. Ground from higher up still rolled over top of the net, but the ground beneath it was secured in place. Lili realized that, if the beings finished laying their net, the avalanche of dirt would stop, and it would be much easier for her to climb back up the hill.

Lili grabbed the end of the cord which was still being held out to her and ran with it as far as she could, falling to her knees and securing it into the ground as she had observed the strange creatures do as soon as she started to slip. She then skidded back down the hill in a descent more controlled than her tumbling of the first two trips and found that she was able to stop herself on the small beings' netting without falling all the way to the bottom.

As soon as she had steadied herself, another of the earthy creatures handed her the end of its cord, and Lili launched herself back up the hill with it, securing it as she had done the previous cord and returning again for another. And another, and another.

The small creatures were hard workers, and Lili worked just as hard, and their net was soon complete. It stretched up and over the top of the hill, and, just as Lili had suspected, the avalanche was quelled. Lili stood at the top of the hill and looked about for the daylight which would signify the way out from under the porch but she saw no end to the dim underground landscape into which she had fallen. No daylight in any direction.