746. But there was another man wrapped up in the net, thus two of them - for what reason, I do not know. Perhaps so that he could show me these matters. For the dragon does not want them to be disclosed, and has therefore often tried by his illusions to invalidate my visions, as well as even to steal them away so that I would not know of them, as he is also doing now. It is a severe punishment to be let under the veil, because they are thereby tormented pitifully. The one who fled away [cf. 753] drew the net with him, like a tail, because of an illusion joined to the fear in fleeing.