This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by the English poet William Butler Yeats. It's a quote from a poem in which the poet says, "I am not a poet, but a messenger. I am a messenger, but not a spy." The poem is about a messenger who is sent to spy on a group of people, and it's about the messenger's ability to spy. In this case, the messenger is the ancestor of the ancestral dragon, the dragon that the sky lords are trying to capture and take back to the clan. The narrator explains that the ancestor's egg has been sealed in another part of the universe, which means that no one has ever been able to take it out, even though the narrator could see it. This is the fifth and final layer of the "rules of space" , and the narrator points out that the ancestors egg is sealed in a completely different place than the other creatures in the universe. This means that, even if they sped up the time, the eggs still won't hatch until after they've been sealed away in a different part of space. This, of course, means that the narrator will have to wait until the eggs hatch before he can take it back to his own space.