The city of Ratbridge stands dark and empty on a Sunday night… except for a boy who crawls out of a drain cover.
The boy, Arthur, is wearing a pair of mechanical wings and carrying a toy figure dressed like him (which is to say, oddly).
He describes what he sees to the doll, addressing it as Grandfather, and it talks back to him, telling him to be careful as he gathers food.
Arthur finds a greenhouse with bananas growing inside—score—but while gathering some bananas to take with him, he accidentally makes some noise, which brings the owners out to investigate.
One lady sees him and manages to hit his wings with a stick. Arthur escapes, but is shaken, so to recover, he flies to the top of the Cheese Hall, which is an abandoned building.
Then he hears a weird bleat and goes to investigate. There's some kind of procession in the woods, hmm…