This scene opens with a rum-boom. The narrator tells the audience that he's going to give morphine to the unconscious soldier. He says that the soldier's flesh has been torn apart, and he'll give him morphine soon. He tells the soldier not to die in vain. The soldier tells the narrator that he was lucky this time, because the captain chose not to send his first lieutenant to the rear command. The first lieutenant would have arrived by now, the narrator says, but because of the "damned son of a tch" . This is the first time the narrator has spoken to the soldier in a long time, and the two of them finally have a chance to have a private conversation. The second soldier says that he doesn't want to die, but he does want to know why the first lieutenant didn't come to the front command sooner. The third soldier says he was originally going to check his condition, but now that he can talk, they can finally have the conversation. He asks the soldier if he can tell him what's wrong with him. He's been feeling pain all the time. He blames the soldier for making him feel pain where he shouldn't feel it. He also says the soldier should know that even his beast form can't withstand the kind of fire he was under when he got hit. He wants to give the soldier some morphine, but the soldier coughs and chews and says he'd give him a small dose of morphine in an hour if he really couldn't stand the pain anymore. The