Seing To and Tint Naing are two Burman brothers who accompany Edgar as he flees Mae Lwin with the piano at the end of the novel. They help to steer the raft on which the piano has been tied. They are curious and lively boys who ask Edgar a lot of questions about his home and his wife. Seing To tells him a Burmese belief about how people's souls are like moths; they fly around at night and return to the person at daybreak. He seems to sense that Edgar's soul now belongs to Burma. Both Seing To and Tint Naing are killed by the British as the raft floats past a British outpost.
