The narrator wakes up to find that his master is snoring. The narrator pretends to be asleep, but he's really worried about what's going on with his master. He wants to find out what the gang wants from him, so he can figure out what they're looking for. He also wants to know where his people are. He asks if there's a "relief hanging on the wall" . It looks like it's been hanging there for a long time, but the narrator doesn't want to look at it. He's afraid that he'll die if he looks at it, but then he realizes that he and his master are "true love" , and they should be allowed to be together. He wonders if the wall is a statue of his enemy, or if the statue is just a human statue with curses carved on it . He can't even figure out how to tell his master that he loves him, because he'd be humiliated if he saw the statue. He knows that he won't be able to get out of his room, so the only thing he can do is run away with the sheets.