In this chapter, Dusk meets a bird named Teryx, which, although not forbidden, was not something he wanted others to know. He gets to know his new friend, who revealed shocking information about what others thought of chiropters (egg eaters, saurian killers), and also revealed the location of a dead saurian nest as proof. They are discovered though, by Teryx's mother, and Dusk barely escapes her beaks. Dusk goes and finds the saurian nesk, and on returning, finds his father trying to fly. He tells his father of what happened, who tells Dusk it is nothing to worry about. The chapter then goes to Carnassial, who, after being driven out, is found by other fellow felids who feel the same way as him, and decide to join together into their own meat-eating prowl.
The next chapter is where this book begins to get more interesting. The next day, the dead body of a fellow newborn chiropter, one of Sylph's friends, is found, with his wings ripped off his body, and beak marks in his wings. The colony view this as a threat from the birds as a result of Dusk's flying, and makes his stop flying. After wards, Dusk is virtually shunned by everyone in his colony except his close family. Dusk decides to go off on his own and become a loner, during which he licks mushrooms (which he was told were poisonous). Dusk then gets a hallucination where he sees felids, chiropters, and other creatures like himself, all fighting. Waking from his vision, Dusk finds Slyph and some friends attempting to destroy an egg, which he stops them from. This chapter also ends by going to Carnassial, as he devours a bird's nest.
These few chapters seem to show the results of Dusk and Carnassial's satisfaction and denial of needs. After Dusk's needs were satisfied, he suddenly becomes deprived of it. As a result, he goes off, and tries to participate in self-destruction. Carnassial, on the other hand, previously had his needs taken away from him, but quickly, he is now over satisfied. The result is exploitation of other creatures, evident as he devours an entire birds nest, knowing the birds cannot do anything.
