In this chapter, the bodin tells his followers that if they help the army get into the castle, they will be free. He tells them that he will be the new emperor at the beginning of the year, and that his wife, Teta Elam, will be his wife at the stake. He says that she must be burned because she is an "accused heathen" and because he intends to convert her to the ways of the Buddha. He also says that burning books of medicine is one thing, but burning culture to ashes is another.