This chapter opens with a conversation between a young woman and a man. The young woman tells the man that she has been poisoned by a poisonous insect, and that she is going to marry the man who poisoned her. The man tells her that he has come to marry her because he wants to be the leader of the clan, but she tells him that she does not want to marry someone who is not from her clan. She tells him to choose a witch doctor who will be able to help her, and the man agrees. He tells the young woman that she should not worry about her grandmother's health, because she will not live long