This chapter opens with a flashback to a time before the events of the previous chapter took place. It is now the middle of the night, and the family is still in the dark about what has happened. The professor tells the family that he loves them both, and that they will meet again in a completely different place. He tells them that he will not allow anything to happen to them this time, and will not let them meet again inside a cage. The family is shocked, but the professor assures them that they are not dead, and they are noisy. The price of kindness, the professor tells them, is high, and in addition to the professor being worried about the family, he would have been killed. He also tells them about the young woman, who is paralyzed with facial paralysis. She will finally be able to fly out of the cage and join the world. The father