The narrator begins this chapter by saying that he's going to bed. He's worried that Lapis is going to wake him up. He wants to know what happened to him on the moon, but he doesn't know how to ask. He asks if there were urchins there, and the narrator says no, there weren't urchins, but there was a "whatsit thing" . The narrator then asks if he remembers anything about the moon. He says that he thinks it's weird that they didn't talk to him, but that they're glad that he came back. He tells the narrator that he looks a little different than he did when he first arrived on the beach, but the narrator is still "phos" on the inside. Lapis, he says, is "our ray of hope" , and he can't believe that the narrator won't tell him the truth. He also says that lapis is a terrible liar, because Lapis could tell the truth with straight face, but no one would ever know the truth after a hundred years. He then asks the narrator to have a game of "think time dance" to see if he can remember anything. The answer is "I do," and he says he'll do it all his self. But the narrator asks if the narrator has any "ques" for him, or any "thing" to worry about, and if he has anything at all. He points out that he has no such thing, and that he just wants to "keep wearing these clothes." The narrator says that the only thing he wants is "to know why I came back." He then says that even ruthless plots are useless against the "stubborn lunk," and that what he says makes perfect sense.