This chapter opens with a description of the Minyan Shrine, a place where people have worshipped deer for thousands of years. The narrator tells us that the shrine is in danger of closing because of a decline in the number of people who worship the deer god. Young people are abandoning the traditional way of worshipping the god, and only old people come to the shrine to worship it. The two of them have quarreled over whether or not to cut the horns of the deer in order to protect the people from harm. They have different opinions on the matter, and the quarrel was meant to be a quarrel.