The desire to keep the existence of the Council hidden from most Untethered. the desire to keep the existence of Untethered from the mortal world. All...of a sudden, the house of cards that the Council had built for centuries was threatening to crumble down before their very eyes.The mortal world didn’t pose any physical threat to the Untethered. No, we were pretty safe in that regard. What it did do was threaten the freedom with which the Untethered operated, free from any manipulations from the. Each evening we sat around a fire and Alawa and Mataoka taught me the finer points of their language and improved my pronunciation markedly. All attempts at teaching Alawa any English failed miserably, though, but Mataoka had a good humored laugh at the garbled words that she struggled with and we persisted without success.It was late in the summer and I had moved down to the summer camp to work more ore when the first Indian came. Slowly, a straggle of women and children came into my summer. But bolne ki himmat nahi hoti thi.Aisa kahi din tak chal ta raha. Ek baar maine usko uske hubby ke bare me pucha.Usne kaha who late night shift mein kaam karte hai. Aur uski shaadi ko 8 saal ho gaya hai. Aur unhe 1 beti hai joh abhi 3 saal ki hai.Maine kaha itna late beti kyu hui toh who udaas ho gayi. Aur usne uss waqt kuch nahi kaha. Shayad usse sharam aa rahi thi. Us din ke baad se mujhe aisa laga mera kaam thoda aasan ho gaya hai. Mujhe green signal mil raha tha. Mai usse phone par bhi baat. Forgot. Shit, I’m hungry, but I’ve gotta piss like a Russian race horse,” he said more quietly.“Do they have to pee worse than other horses?” Jasmine asked with a giggle as she hurriedly laced her boots.“Damned if I know, but I’m beginning to think I’ll never make it to the outhouse.”“So, you don’t have to. You’re a man. You can pee against a tree or something.”They snatched their rifles up and were out the door. “Screw this,” Jasmine said as she stepped out of the path and dropped her pants..