It's been three days since they last saw each other, and now that they're both dead, it's time for the fight to begin. The narrator tells us that he's going to have to fight "face-to-face" . He's not going to run away, he says, and he'll need to "pierce the heart, the matter, and pierce the flesh , the bone , and the matter . . and stab at the back of the head . " The narrator says that he doesn't know why there's a snowstorm in the middle of winter, but he does know that the two of them have made it to the top of the mountain pass. They're going to spend the night at the muzzle-peak lookout fort, where they'll be able to see if they've caught up to the other man. He tells the narrator that his leg is getting better, but that he needs to rest for a while. He also tells him that a scout has seen a figure that appears to be their target, a special sergeant major. There's another man with him, but they seem to be locked into combat. The two men are dead, the narrator says, but the narrator can't figure out why he didn't kill them. He wonders if he had "sweet dreams" , or if the terror that he felt in his "fragile human form" kept him awake. He says that the hunt is going to continue, and that he hopes they can kill him.