This chapter's epigraph comes from a poem by a famous poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem, "Invisible Man," is about a man who is separated from the real world by a wall of invisible barriers. The wall is made of sand, and the man is trapped in the sand. He is unable to move because he is a "dark lord of magic" , a term used to refer to a person who has no magical powers. The man's weakness is explained by the fact that he was born with no special blood lineage, meaning he was not born with the ability to use magic. He also explains that the strength of the members of the emergency management group is quite uneven. He asks the man if he would be willing to help him establish a new group of emergency management men. He tells the man that he has just won a warrior over to his side. He says that the man was captured by the executive officer using the gange meteor-shuttle as a weapon to kill anyone who betrays him. The group assumed that the meteor shuttle would be a way to destroy enemies instantly, but there is something else going on in the desert.