This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play's first chapter, in which the narrator laments the fact that the gods are no longer with us. He wonders if the dead are just disembodied parts that have been removed from their bodies to form new ones. He also wonders why they have to go through all this trouble to kill the ten dead sages. The narrator wonders if it's just enough to create a new body, or if they're just trying to form something new. He's not sure, but he's sure that the dead men must be the same ten sages that were seen in the statues. The dead men are covered in dust, and the narrator can't believe that they've all died the same way. He thinks that this is a sign that Gaius is going to take over the war in the near future, and that he'll be back soon after. He wants to meet someone who can lead his former soldiers back to their homeland.