After setting loose Pilli the bog-fairy, Morgan and Qing go about sorting through Valicross' recovered notebooks. The Kadie grows more and more distracted though, thinking of what the creen-spirit told him, until he just has to blurt out his confusion.

Qing assures him that, no matter what his mother may recall, Morgan's father was undoubtedly a Kadie, and that a spirit may have meddled but certainly didn't conceive him.

The master and apprentice discuss what it means to be born into a situation and whether or not spirits (or anything really) could have souls. Qing is very sure of all of his convictions, based on long years of experience, and that helps Morgan a little bit – but the Kadie can't help but feel there is something deeper to natural spirits.