- Hahp thinks he's the only one of the boys who's eating, though he can only manage to summon apples. After a while, they begin to upset his stomach.
- One of the boys asks Franklin when they'll be given food, and whether Somiss had been exaggerating—Franklin says nope, he wasn't.
- One boy says that if their fathers had known about this, they'd never have sent their boys there, but Franklin replies that their fathers were told that they'd probably never see them again.
- Hahp thinks about how much he hates his father some more.