The next morning, the narrator wakes up to find that Shan is still sleeping. He's a lot heavier than he was when he first woke up, and he's worried about what he'll look like when he wakes up. He wonders if he woke up too late, and wonders why he didn't wake up when he was supposed to. He asks if he can have some food, and when he doesn't have it, he asks if it's safe to go see him. He also asks if there's anything he can do to make him feel better about himself. He wants to remind himself to be careful, he says, because things can get messed up by just one bullet.