The chapter opens with a description of the elementals, who look like "ordinary girls" but live long lives. They are born after the barrier was raised, and they know nothing of war with humans. They harbor dreams of a human world, enchanted by humans. The narrator tells us that the humans who live in the garden are too innocent and childlike to be elementals. He says that the encounter between the two elementals will be a turning point in the story. The two of them are about to meet, and the narrator asks the two to not go near the man who has been inside the barrier. He tells the two not to tell Lady Loukios, who will be furious with them