The narrator tells us that this is the "axata residential" area of the city, and that it's different from the " bustling city" . The narrator says that he almost forgot that he was being carried around all this time. He says that if the guy keeps staring at her, she'll run away from him. She says that she'd rather run away than be carried around in his arms again. He's holding her so tightly, she says, that she almost acted all terrified. She wonders who these people are to him, and she wonders why he's so tight with her. She wants to run away, but she can't, because she's afraid of what he'll do to her if she does run away.