Suddenly Meg feels that she's in nothingness, and that her body itself has disappeared. Slowly she returns to herself, and finds that she, Charles Wallace, Calvin, and the three Mrs. Ws are in a sunlit field. Mrs. Whatsit tells them that they're on a different planet, and they're going to find Mr. Murry, Meg and Charles Wallace's missing dad. Mrs. Whatsit changes into an unspeakably beautiful winged centaur and takes them on a ride to the top of a huge mountain, stopping along the way to pick up some oxygen-producing flowers so they won't suffocate from the thin atmosphere. From the top of the mountain they see a dark shadow blotting out the stars that gives them a feeling of great evil.