In this chapter, the narrator explains that he has just passed out in the street. He assumes that he was kidnapped, but he realizes that he is in a meeting with a colleague. He asks the colleague why he took him hostage, and the colleague replies that he did not think he would agree to it. The narrator then asks if the colleague is interested in things that are "not human," and the latter responds that he does not care about beings "that are not human." The narrator is surprised that the colleague does not seem to be interested in beings that aren't human, and he wonders if the two of them are in a similar state of mind.