This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet, Henry James. In this poem, a dog crows from chaos. It is a reference to the battle of Longmire, which took place in the Ming dynasty. The dog was killed by another dog of the mountain, the long-lost Long-lost Lion. The old man, the Ming's elder son, has come to fight the lion, but the old man refuses to fight. He tells the young man that he will kill him if he does not hand over the lion. The young man, however, refuses, saying that he is not afraid of the lion and that he respects the elder man's authority. The elder man tells him that the meeting of elders is another challenge.