"I am 18 and if I say you can punish me you can. I am an adult and can make decisions." By this time I felt like I was 12 in a tux three sizes too big... and about to faint.She again stared at me. I think she too was surprised at what I said. “You are 18 and you agree to let me punish you?”“Yes.” I was just able to get the word out.“You will do as I tell you and take your punishment?”“Yes.” A little stronger now. After all I could follow instructions. I would just ground myself or give up TV or. I asked if I was going to be the only one here and he said no, that he was also staying behind to get some work done around the camp. I agreed to stay with him and everyone else had left the camp and he had me start cutting some firewood for that nights fire. AfterI had chopped about twenty logs up, I was sweaty and tired and he offered me some water and told me to take a seat with him in his tent. I went inside and sat down on his bunk right next to him. He reached over and patted me on the. The mind, or some essence of it, may well survive, but only in utter isolation." Isolation?" she repeated incredulously. "How can you say that? The mind lives on in a community of like minds, some of them with still-living bodies, others not, but all of them in complete rapport with one another. I mean, how is that different than the Christian heaven?" The isolation to which I had reference was the complete divorcement from the physical realm," he explained. "Perhaps some few may conceive of a. Got it?”Ember frowned. “A human can learn to read. But an Unconquered can learn to read really fast. A human can lead, but an Unconquered can lead ... in ... a more gooder way,” he said, slowly.“Yes. It’s all in the use and channeling of mana, as well as your own inherent skills,” June said, nodding down at him. “That’s what Goat was watching you for – to see what your inherent fighting is like. And-”“Chirp!” Ember said, clapping his hands.The drawer to his left opened and Chirp sprang out,.