Ailen is on his way to the night-shadow hall, where he will find out the answer to the red rain curse. He asks the boy if he is familiar with the place, and the boy tells him that he is. He tells the boy that he has a friend who is in need of the rain to be lifted, and that the rain is a curse on him. He suggests that they go there and find out what the answer is. The boy is impressed by the boy's beauty, and wonders if the boy is in love with a witch. He then asks where he can find the answer, and he is told that the book of the truth is the only book that can tell him the answer