This chapter's epigraph is from a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which describes a monster clanking miserable ant. It's a reference to the fact that a lowly creature can have the power and strength of the human race, even though the creature has cost the protagonist an arm and cost him an arm himself. The protagonist is shocked to learn that the creature can still have the ability to move at such high speed, even after landing a big fist. He's also shocked that he's still able to move so fast. He asks the protagonist what's going on, and the protagonist tells him that his mission has been accomplished. He also tells the protagonist that the beehive demonstration of the "power of love" has been done, but that the embryos are still "slaves." The protagonist says that he doesn't want to go help