In this chapter, we learn that Eros and Avit have borrowed the temple. Eros wants to stay in the temple, but Avit wants to go outside. Eros tells Avit that the tree offering ceremony will damage his body, so he's going to have to leave. Avit tells Eros to go wherever he wants, but Eros tells him to stay put. Eros says he'll wait for the elves to wake up, and then they'll have to decide whether or not to accept Avit as their new wife. Eros asks if this is the god of procreation's power to create? Avit says it's not, and Eros tells her to look away. He's a tree-folk, he says, and he didn't want to deceive her. Eros begs for help from the elves, but they won't help him. Eros tries to calm him down, but little zhan reminds him that they're both men, and that they need to stop talking nonsense.