The chapter opens with a description of the bright group, which is a group of people who work together to maintain the order of the land. The chapter begins with a discussion of the evil of the moon hermits, who are described as the "evilest existence" in the book. The narrator explains that he was banished from his studies by the scholar Romande because he had different views about the existence of the hermits. He had decided to leave the world of the sun and travel to another world with his heart full of love. In the meantime, he met the real hermits on the day he was supposed to be taking care of them. He was surprised to find that he could not take care of either of them, because his wife was pregnant. He decided to take the male hermit home and the female would be taken care of by his father. He explains that his father has helped the moon-remnants before, and now that he has met Nyx, he is surprised to learn that he too has met them. In his father's journal, he records that he married the female moon hermit in 574, but it has been nineteen years since the marriage. He decides to ask the hermit to transform into Nyx to see if he can reverse the effects of the phantoms.