This chapter's epigraph is from a famous speech by Dr. Bledsoe. It's a famous quote about how charybois can't be separated from its body because it's like a spiritual being, and once separated, it'll go somewhere else to find another body. This is important because, as we've already seen, the only way to get rid of a demon is to kill its creator. The narrator explains that the only place where a demon can be killed is in a place where no one else knows it exists. He tells us that the place where he killed Carrion was in the forest, where the dryads didn't know they were there. The dryads were there because the hero gave them the gift of the charyboids. The two clowns were wearing masks, and one was a girl in a weeping mask. The other was a fat man in an angry mask. It turns out that the fat man was gelmud, the agent of the clayman, and the girl was wearing a mask that looked like a woman in mourning. The fat man with the angry mask wasn't gelmud at all, but he was probably trying to get revenge on Carrion for killing him. Carrion, of course, doesn't want to hear this, so he tells the narrator that he owes him something. He says that he's going to tell all the other demons to stay away from the forest.