- The narrator is in a still valley with a small river flowing through it. Her uncle is here too. Nearby is the village that has been their home for over twenty years.
- Uncle is a little weird. He thinks that the grass in the valley looks like the sea, and even seems to be getting seasick. We're not sure what's going on, and his broken English is kind of confusing.
- The first time they came to this valley, the narrator was scared about rattlesnakes. Rattlesnakes are terrifying: we'd be creeped out, too. But not Uncle. He just chides her for being a scaredy cat and asks how old she is. Our narrator is thirty-six.
- The narrator and Uncle visit the valley every year, but the narrator doesn't know why. She asks, but there are no answers. Just silence.
- After a while, the narrator goes off to pick some flowers. She got bored of sitting with Uncle, we guess. The chapter ends with the narrator looking over the valley in the night.