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Masklin (along with Angalo and Gurder) are searching for Grandson
Richard,
as the Thing has told him that it could call their spaceship if it could get
aboard the communications satellite Richard is going to launch. The nomes
first go to the airport where they quietly board Concorde and fly to Florida.
After causing some trouble on the plane, they hide in Richard's luggage and
end up in his hotel room. They however have to flee and end up outside where
they meet a tribe of Nomes who speak a language close to ancient Nomish. They
manage to communicate thanks to the Thing and the local Nomes fly them to the
space shuttle's launch site on geese (thanks to which they migrate yearly
between Alaska and Florida). Near the shuttle, the Thing uploads itself into
the satellite and exhausts in doing so all the power it had stored. After the
takeoff, Masklin decides to take it to a human building to let it recharge
itself near electrical wires. He is caught (on purpose) by humans but manages
to escape with the recharged Thing as the Nomes' spaceship arrives and Angalo
and Gurder board it. Masklin then by chance meets Richard, with whom he
discusses briefly as the Nome's spaceship, piloted by Angalo, lands again and
let him board. They then fly away back to Britain after making a detour
through South America where they pick up a Bromeliad flower that Masklin
gives to Grimma before taking the Nomes. Gurder decides to stay on Earth to
search for other Nome tribes, tell them of their origins and give them the
possibility to migrate to a Nome planet the next time the spaceship would
visit Earth.