The scene opens with the rat bird's lamentation that he has long since forgiven his master. He has been waiting for him to reveal who he really is, and now he is ready to do so. The rat bird tells his master that he cannot just blurt out his true identity, and that he must practice his disguise with something else. He also tells him that he will not be able to be "warm and gentle" with the ugly mug in his face, because it does not look like his mother at all. He then tells him to draw the scar on his forehead and draw it himself, because the scar is not like hers at all, and he will go find the crescent-ghoul and find out who he is. He tells him not to let his mother get away with the humiliation she once inflicted on him, because he will never tell anyone about it.