In this chapter, Desdemona explains how she and Eno's ship was attacked and taken to a place called "the mountain" where people were being held for experiments. When they died, they were tossed aside, and no one knew what their turn would be. She tells us that she ate every meal she had, feeling that it was her last meal. When she had nothing else to do, she would touch the ground, the fence, the clothes, the hair, and the body. She came to like the feeling of the touch on her fingers, which let her know that she was still alive. She says that whenever she thought about that, she wished she would have become "a wisps of blue smoke" and disappear from the world