This chapter's epigraph comes from a letter that Pap has written to his "deep psyche" . Pap wonders if this is the same place he saw in the "white memo ries" , and he wonders if it's the place where the "new recruit" was indoctrinated. He wonders if she's trying to kill them, but he can't figure out what's going on. He doesn't want to be killed, he says, because he's afraid that the "Yomotsu" part of her might have eluded him. He thinks it might be a good opportunity for the new recruit to face her past. He's also worried that the place might be used as a base of operations for the search for the sunken ship. The men inside the ship look like they've been there for a long time, but Pap is worried that they're using the place as a laboratory. He worries that they might be using it for some sort of scientific or military purpose. He also worries that the men are using it as a place where they can get some work done. They're telling him that he needs to go to the sun to see the stars until he reaches a certain amount of money. Pap is so sick of the place that he starts to freak out. He starts to wonder if the men in the ship are really using it to search for sunken treasure, or if they just want to get paid to look at the sun. They don't seem to have much of a sense of purpose, he thinks, and they look like a waste of time and money.