Confessions
- Botticelli tells Roscuro to go torment the new prisoner and to take the red cloth away from him. Roscuro heads on over to do his job.
- Roscuro starts by asking the man to tell him about himself. Apparently, the rats like to get the prisoners to confide in them, to trust them, and then to completely take advantage of them. So Roscuro is just following the tried-and-true tradition.
- The man tells Roscuro that he's been thrown in the dungeons for stealing six cows, but that this isn't the worst thing he ever did. He once traded his daughter for a tablecloth, a hen, and some cigarettes.
- Roscuro isn't as horrified as any sane person would be upon hearing this story; apparently his little rat parents weren't that loving or kind to him either.
- Then Roscuro asks him if the cloth that he's holding now—the cloth that he sold his daughter for—makes him remember what he did.
- The man says yes, and Roscuro takes the cloth and runs off with it, even as the man calls him a thief and shouts for him to come back. What a classic rat move!
- The cloth doesn't bring Roscuro nearly as much satisfaction as he'd hoped, and so he realizes that he won't rest easy until he gets to go upstairs...and sees all that beautiful light firsthand.