In this chapter, the reader is introduced to a new character named "Lilith" . She is a young woman who has been sleeping in the body of a five-year-old boy. When the boy asks her what happened, she tells him that she was sleeping in his body all night and that he almost got strangled. She asks him if he would like to be rid of her, and he says that he would be grateful if she could tell him what happened. He asks her if she knows about the "blue obsidian" and she says that she doesn't, but that she has a "familiar feeling" with it. He tells her that he can't sleep with her, because the memory of the soul is "usually incomplete," and he asks her to help him.