"The vicked image" is the title of this chapter's first soliloquy. It's a reference to the image of the raven in the sky, and it's one of the most famous lines in Gothic literature. It says, "You kill me, and the world sees what I really am" . In other words, the narrator is saying, "I'm not going to cover up another murder" , and he's referring to the fact that the whole world will see what he really is. The narrator doesn't want to kill himself, but he does want the world to see that he is a monster. He wants to see what happens to the people who lied for him. He also wants to know what will happen to his friends if he dies. He's not a bad guy, he says, but if something happens, he'll be a total fuck up. He thinks that he wants to be free, but that he can't die like that. He says that if he were to die, he would be able to "h-stan peptoch 1 -15 ser imhet ." . He adds that he'd support the underground, whatever they needed, and that's all he wants from the gods. He tells the narrator that he and his "white boy bullshit" are the only gods who've ever been affected by anything. He compares them to a "whack-a-mole" who has no time to think about what's going on in the world. They're going to be killed within two seconds if they don't change their minds, and if they do, they'll have to sacrifice themselves. They also have to figure out what to do about the darkness