In the heat of the desert, the beasts protect the fort from the attack of the "insects" , and the animals hear a voice coming from the tabernacle. The narrator tells the audience that the tabernacle was created by the goddess of the underworld, and that she taught the animals how to speak. He says that the next day, she returned to the tabernacle and restored it, and he says that he owes everything to her. He speculates that she might return one day, but he doesn't know where she went. He wonders how the bandits survived in the wasteland until they reached the oasis. He thinks that they are "infernals" because they're so close to the oasis, but the narrator tells him that he should have told them that they were "infernals." The narrator is so relieved that he thinks he's dead. He asks the beasts why they won't talk to him because he is an animal, and they respond by saying that it's "creative energy" that creates the world. He tells the animals that the oasis was created to destroy everything in its path.