In this chapter, we learn that Roxane's cousin, kur, has refused to participate in the challenge to eat half a cow's tongue. The challenge is a way for humans to keep their genetic material alive, but it doesn't work for Roxane, because she's too old to eat a cow tongue. One day, two sun-peeks saw a man trying to make contact with them, but the man stopped when he saw another man in the crowd. One of the men chased the man down, and the man left the scene with a suitcase in his hand.