This chapter opens with a flashback to the night of the fire. The narrator tells us that it was the same fire that killed her father. She is now six years old and is wandering the streets alone in the cold, alone. She asks if she can sleep under a bridge, and the narrator tells her that it is dangerous for her to be alone outdoors. She wants to come home with her uncle, but the narrator says it is too dangerous. She tells the narrator that she should have died with her father when she was young, but that she is now living like a beggar. She says that she thought changing her identity would help her, but it did not work out as she thought. She met her uncle that day, and he is the