In this chapter, the monster explains that he has always thought that the presence of ghosts was the greatest benevolence of the gods. He tells his master that he would be better off being captured by the ghost. The monster then explains that his master's health is getting worse. He says that he woke up to find that the horse had struggled free of its reins and that the goods had almost fallen into the river. Later, he says, he found that someone had been strangling him through the window. He asks the mage to paint the figure. The figure is not a man, but a woman with a center parting and green clothes. He wonders if she is wearing hair horns or braids. He is sure that she will be sucked into the vortex.