One day, Marq and Rat go on a dragon hunt. Korga expects that the hunt will end up in the killing of a dragon. However, he is mistaken. The dragon hunt is carried out with radar guided bows and rather than killing the dragon, hitting the dragon with an arrow allows one to share consciousness with the creature for a moment. Rat and Marq both succeed in the hunt and later sing songs together. Singing songs is known as the proper conclusion to dragon hunting on Velm. Later on at a dinner party, Rat Korga is smothered by attention because he is the sole survivor of Rhyonon. The Web sees this and eventually takes Korga away with spaceships of the XLV, an alien race. Marq becomes emotionally destroyed by the loss of Rat.
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand is all about the travel between various worlds and their diverse cultures. The travel of love and heart is also depicted in the novel. Delaney was able to forsee and predict the World Wide Web through his discussion of GI. GI allows one to have the capability of knowing about everything in the universe. Since Rat under went radical anxiety termination, he is given a GI headset. This headset in turns gives him access to a vast amount of knowledge.