"Drink in moderation" is the first line of the chapter, which begins with the narrator drinking heavily. He tells the reader that he is worried about his financial situation, and that his partner was "really scary" . The narrator tells us that his wealth will not change, as long as the narrator stays by his side. He says that the child is "essentially a tool" for the narrator, and he is wasting his time on "these things" because he is an alpha. If he has time to "spontaneate nonsense," he says, then he should have pity on his "beta brother," because he brought back memories of his own childhood. "You seem down," the narrator says, "push drip slump" , and then he smells alcohol. He asks the narrator to give him his hand, and the narrator does so. "Hold it together... clench ah, clench