This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the same author as the epigraph for this chapter. The poem is about a girl who has come to the forest to cry. The girl is crying because she doesn't have a place to go. She's just a lonely foreign girl. She coughs and says she caught her attention in town. She tells the boy to come back with her and they can eat and drink whatever they want. The boy says he's hungry and thirsty. He tells the girl to calm down and listen to him and he'll give her whatever she wants. He's going to give her all the food and drink she needs. He also tells her to be quiet so he can talk to his brother. This is the first time he has ever seen anyone with an aura like this. He says he never saw anyone who had this kind of aura before. He knows he can't die without knowing who he is. The only way to leave the forest is to die. He remembers the tree-headed pale owl that the deacon used to