The painting's lady-in-the-paint asks where she is. She remembers being attacked by a group of men, and she needs to find out if she is okay. She wants to know if she can stay in the painting, and if she will be able to pass the entrance exam. She asks where her clothes are, and he tells her that those who pass the test become the new masters of the land. The test is not easy, he says, because only three masters have been in the land for a thousand years. If he doesn't pass, he will be disqualified from the test for twenty hours, so he'll have to wait until four in the afternoon to pass. He tells her to get warmed up, because the test has four parts, and once she passes one, the door will open for her to enter the next part. She's so excited that she wants to jump the bridge, but she can't because the bridge is too hot. She wonders if there are dead bodies on the bridge. She thinks that if she gives up, she'll be a wife for someone else, and the hotness of the bridge will kill her. She decides to tread on the other side of the hot bridge, hoping that it will do the trick.