This chapter opens with a description of the crimson scroll. It is the part of the scroll that has been absorbed by the monster's spirit. The scroll is a symbol of the afterlife, and the monster explains that he has come to collect it. He explains that it is the only way for him to inherit the powers of the spirit. He also explains that the child is the result of a dream in which he was carried away by his mother. The child's symptoms are related to the poison-feather venom, which is the same thing as the poisonfeather that killed his father