In this chapter, we learn that the kalkasavans have come to take over the guard duties of the city. They're angry that they're being captured, and they want to get back to their rightful place in the world. They want to know why they fight so much. First of all, they know that they were destined to be clairvoyants, who would create prediction paintings that would foretell the future. The family who invoked their powers said that it costs them thousands of dollars to get their fortune told. Also, the cost of a puffed-up corn snack is about 10 cents. So that's what's going on here. The narrator tells us that some people, including himself, had Fatma paint a picture as a test to see if her powers would work. Since some people were skeptical, some people went to do the painting as well. They both want to save Akashi, since he is a good guy. So they should work together, right? The narrator says that the star and the moon couns should join forces, since they both hate the jerks. He says that he's not talking about the two of them working together. He's talking about their coun trying to take him and his jerks to the moon. He also says that there was one problem with the painting, which was that fatma never matured. She had no value outside of that. She was just an extension of her mind. She never matured, he says, and that was why he was always an