This chapter's epigraph comes from a soliloquy in which Yusuke laments the fact that he and the rest of the gang will not be able to stop epifanio's attack on the meeting of the jaguar leaders. He also laments that it is too dangerous for them to travel to the meeting site, where he intends to kill all of the leaders. Yusuke and the others decide that it would be better to trap Calisto and kill him before he can become a victim himself. They also decide that they will kill all the other jaguar leaders before the war begins. They decide that the only way to stop the war is to get rid of the people who live near the blood ceremony site. They plan to use magic to track down the remaining jaguar leaders and kill them before the fighting starts.