The chapter opens with a flashback to the time the Nocter family was kidnapped and taken to a military hospital. The narrator tells us that the military authorities found the family and took them to a health center. The military authorities told the family that their daughter was safe and that they should not exchange her clothes or jewelry for money. The nocters are worried about their daughter, who is from a nearby village and has been abused by the village boys for many years. They decide to assign her a bodyguard who is closer to her age. They also decide to give her a birthday present: a boat.