‘Listen up and you will have all your questions answered. We have all the food with us that we’re going to need. ‘Some of you will be sharing a ...canoe with a counselor. I am sure they will appreciate it if you don’t tip the canoe over so they don’t have to sleep in a wet sleeping bag.’ The kids laughed at that. ‘You will have to wear life jackets the entire time you are on the water. This is for your safety. I don’t want to see anyone taking their life jacket off in the boat, alright?’ One girl. Once at the bottom, she talked, pointed, and argued. I woman I now knew to be her mother was doing the same. I had the sense that there was trust and respect between them, but also concern. Whatever the young woman was proposing had the other woman and the men arguing. Finally, after much back and forth, Wachiwi pulled her mother away from the others and talked only to her and the discussion became a discussion and less of an argument. The mother looked up at us for a while, then talked. We have no idea what Max thinks or feels for her or her for Max, especially after what happened.”“But...”“But nothing.”Zephrin just nodded. They walked in“There’s our son.”Max looked up. “Mom, Dad. Why are you here?”Zephrin shook his head. “Son, you were an internet star for a few hours.”“What are you talking about?”“Your fight at the hotel. You killed two men and badly injured another, some son of a suspected drug lord,” said Zephrin.“Men! Max, you fought for the honor of your girlfriend and. By the way, there eight of you in this lot, not that it matters to you, since one, two four or even eight of you are still less than nothing until you start to learn. We gather from your silence that you have each learned that speech is not allowed at this stage. The only things allowed are total obedience and complete humility. You do not possess a single thing except your desire to obey. You have no name, no number, no nothing. You will obey and worship anything and everything you.