New Characters
Fat Man: A man who Margarita encounters on the banks of the Yenisey River.

Hella: A witch.

Summary
Margarita’s invisible flight is underway. She flies along the Arbat, dodging utility wires as she flies about 20 feet off the ground before coming across the House of Dramatists and Literary Workers. Margarita finds Latunsky’s name on the tenants’ list, finds his top-floor apartment, and enters through an open window. She turns on the bathtub faucet, smashes the piano with a hammer, and starts smashing Latunsky’s windows and other windows on the top floor. Continuing to smash windows methodically, she descends to the fourth floor as the overflowing bathtub water starts to fall through the floor to the apartment below Latunsky’s. But she sees a small boy who tells her he is afraid, and she stops smashing windows, puts down her hammer, and quickly flies out of Moscow. Natasha, flying on a pig who is Margarita’s transformed husband, joins her and explains that the ointment has enabled Natasha to fly and produced the husband’s transformation. Natasha flies on ahead, and Margarita, sensing that her goal is near, slows her flight to land near the Yenisey River. There, she sees a naked, fat, drunken man, who calls her Queen Margot and falls into the river. Margarita flies to the opposite bank of the river, where musicians are playing a march in her honor, and naiads, naked witches, and a goat-legged figure give her a welcome. The goat-legged person calls for a car on an improvised telephone made from two twigs, and the car, driven by a crow, arrives to take Margarita back to Moscow.

The car drops off Margarita at a deserted cemetery, where she meets Azazello. They fly on the broom to 302-bis. They walk past three men, all of them wearing a cap and high boots, and go into apartment 50. They walk up the dark apartment’s stairs to a landing and see Koroviev there, holding a little lamp. He, dressed in formal wear, asks Margarita to follow him as Azazello disappears. She sees that they are in a huge hall before Koroviev explains the huge size of the hall by saying that it is easy for someone acquainted with the fifth dimension to expand space. Koroviev goes on to tell Margarita that Woland gives a ball every year in the spring on the full moon, and he needs her to serve as hostess. The woman must be named Margarita and be a Moscow native, two characteristics she matches. Margarita accepts, and she and Koroviev enters a small room, in which Azazello stands. The witch who had surprised the Variety’s barman, and who is named Hella, sits on a rug by an oak bed. Behemoth sits before a chess table holding a knight, and Woland sits on the bed, staring at Margarita and wearing a long nightshirt. He and Behemoth are playing chess. Behemoth is dressed in a bow tie and wearing ladies’ opera glasses from a strap on his neck, which he deems suitable attire for the evening’s ball.

Woland identifies Behemoth for Margarita, and some of the chess pieces begin moving in their squares, to Margarita’s surprise. In a bid for victory, Behemoth gets Woland’s king to run off the board, but Woland sees what has happened and gets the cat to give up. Woland shows Margarita his globe, which is a living microcosm of the real world, with wars, fires, and collapsing houses happening on it. He tells Margarita that Abaddon, the Hebrew word for destruction, does excellent work, and Abaddon promptly emerges from the wall,...