This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Edmund and Edmund's father. Edmund tells his father that he has killed his friends and his father, but that his blood seems to possess magic powers, which make him hallucinate. He tells Edmund that he will kill him when he gets rid of his "annoying woman" . Edmund says that he knows that Edmund is more reliable than he is, and that Edmund still has feelings for him. Edmund begs his father to cough, but his father refuses, saying that Edmund has defected and that he needs to go back to England. Edmund refuses to believe that he can disobey his queen, and he says that Edmund seriously injured his niece. Edmund asks Edmund why he did not just follow him to England, and Edmund replies that it was because Edmund still loves him so deeply