- The boys all figure that that no one is capable of making food anymore; Hahp returns to his room to study, but decides to look at the history book instead of the song book.
- He reads about the four vows that every graduate of the academy must take: lifelong cloister, lifelong silence, lifelong celibacy, and lifelong poverty. Those sound… not awesome.
- Hahp works on memorizing the first song. He and the other boys have to recite it for Somiss, who has corrections for everyone—so no one gets to eat yet.
- Hahp just wants to get away from the academy, maybe run away or kill himself or something—anything is better than this.