This chapter's epigraph is from a poem by the same author as the one in this chapter. In the poem, the narrator laments the fact that even though he has been trained to fight with two fists, he is still not strong enough to take on a four-man team. He laments that he has not yet learned how to use the sky-breaker properly, and that he does not yet know how much energy it takes to heal a person. He decides that he will use a cloak to prevent the man from absorbing any of his energy. The thunders strike, and the narrator worries that the man will not be strong