This chapter's epigraph comes from a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Ballad of a Young Man" . In this poem, a young man named Edward Allan Poe explains that he was kicked out of his family's position as heir to the throne because he was a swordsman. The young man says that his family kicked him out because of his talent. He says that he will take his sister as a hostage so that they can turn things around.