The doctor explains that he's been walking around the village for an hour, and they're back on the outskirts of town. He wants to give them the pills they took from him before, so they can see the god every month. The doctor tells the doctor that the god isn't in the village, but across the river. He's totally broken, and he can't move. He coughs and says that the sculptures they saw in the mirror were clearly different than the form in the cocoon. They don't really know who the god is, but they do know that he severed his hand and formed a new sand on the edge of the mirror. He asks the doctor if they can use the pills to heal the god, but the doctor doesn't think it's a good idea. He says that throwing the pills into the furnace is a better way to do it. He also says that they've been giving birth to babies all this time, and out of three of them, one of them is crippled and two are able-bodied. He wonders why they have to give birth to so many babies, and why out of those three, one is mentally disabled. He thinks maybe the water in their wells or the food in their stomachs is what's causing the babies to be sick. They've lived in this town for ages without getting sick, so maybe it'll be okay if they send the spirits of the dead and the living to the furnace to help heal the