This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the poet . It's a poem in which the poet says that he's not ready to face the monster. He's afraid that the monster is just a trick from the octopus. He doesn't know where to go or what to do, so he can't figure out how to get away from the monster, which is crawling around him. The poet is terrified of the monster because it's so scary. The only thing he can do is be by his side. He won't betray them, he says, and he'll be there for them no matter what. The village chief's palace has been destroyed, and the village priest has been injured fighting against the monster to find the night pearls. The priest was fighting for the tribe's survival even if he knew that the shadow was looking at him. He would have been a shadow without the help of the poet. The poem ends with the poet's mark on the wall, which he feels must have been left there by