In this chapter, the protagonist explains that he has one condition before he will accept the group's offer of friendship: he must tell the villagers not to let anyone else know that he is a soul. He also tells them that the village has been destroyed by the "brutes" and that it will take some time for the village to repair itself. He then gives the villagers the rare meat that he used to escape from the battlefield. He tells the protagonist that since he no longer needs to escape, he will give the meat to the protagonist. The protagonist decides that they should go to the city of fiendfire, where they will find fewer enemies and avoid unnecessary fights. He suggests that they buy the pills to find the lord, fight the world, paper tigers.