foreshadowing

I love Letties's powers. It's like she's a witch, but added in with her coming from a different world adds an element of intrigue. I bet when she was biding the monster, when the main character caught the ball, that something bad happened to him. The writing implies that he did do something bad, or caught something bad. Because he states "I hope it was the right answer" so I wonder how bad he's going to get it