This chapter opens with a discussion of the difficulty level of the next mission, "Song of Fire and Ice" . It seems that there are only two players who are required to participate in the mission, and that the two players from each camp usually join one another after the mission is over. The two players discuss whether or not they should join one camp or join the other. They discuss the fact that they are about to be level-mates, and they discuss how much they have progressed in the game. They talk about how tedious it was to level up so quickly, but now that they have all their equipment, they can buy a decent weapon to use in the arena. They wonder if a new player has challenged tilis, and if he thinks she is a thief. They worry that the thief is already running away. The thief's skill, whoosh, is an attack that turns the player into a shadow and then attacks the enemy. It causes a blind status effect for a short time.