- There's a switch from third-person to first-person narrator, and we learn that our "I" is Hahp, an eleven-year-old boy whose father decides to get rid of him by packing him off… somewhere.
- Hahp's mother tries to check in with him, but she's obviously afraid of his father.
- Hahp sees that one window in his father's mansion is lit up from within; that means that one of the servants, Celia, who's always been kind to him, is awake.
- Since Hahp's father breeds sought-after flying horses, he's pretty rich, which means there's a really fancy carriage to cart Hahp away. His parents ride with him, and Hahp thinks about how much he hates his father.