Chapter 3: Big Man the Laltain, Small Man the Mombatti

艾斯沙本走回自己的房間，瑞海兒跟在後面。寧靜的艾斯沙本站在浴室內，赤裸著身體，彷彿消失在寂靜之中。

"The room had kept his secrets. It gave nothing away. Not in the disarray of rumpled sheets, nor the untidiness of a kicked-off shoe or a wet towel hung over the back of a chair. Or a half-read book. It was like a room in a hospital after the nurse had just been. The floor was clean, the walls white. The cupboard closed. Shoes arranged. The dustbin empty" (87).

「房間守住他的秘密。沒有洩漏任何事情。凌亂皺褶的床單如此，被踢開而亂擺的一隻鞋子、掛在椅背的濕浴巾、或者讀到一半的書也一樣。房間就像護士剛來過之後的狀態。地板乾淨、牆壁刷白、櫥櫃緊閉、鞋子擺齊、空垃圾桶。」