In this chapter, Phos returns to the city where he has been hiding out. He asks Aechmea to tell him everything that has happened to him since he first arrived on the moon. She tells him that the kongo experiment has failed, and that they have confirmed that the operation has ceased. She asks him to twitch one of the emeralds that he has touched, and he says that he will turn him into powder and "pour him into the ocean."