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being an anthropologist and to be start being a human. She placed her hand on his shoulder and addressed Jun-Tuk in his own language. “If there is anything that you need or that you need me to tell the doctors, just let me know.”
    Jun-Tuk nodded and smiled at Gina. Henry came rushing over with a bottled water and a sandwich that he had gotten from the hospital café. Jun-Tuk drank the water but he only took a few small bites from his sandwich. Hours passed as they waited for news from the doctors about Shunu’s condition. The first rays of dawn had just pierced through the hospital windows when a doctor came out into the waiting room. He walked straight over to Jun-Tuk and Gina.
    The doctor looked at Gina. “My nurses tell me that you are able to translate for this man.”
    Gina nodded. “Yes doctor.”
    The doctor knelt down beside Jun-Tuk. “I am sorry to have to tell you this but your daughter has died.”
    Gina’s eyes began to tear up as she tried to form the words to tell Jun-Tuk but he could tell from the look on her face what had happened. The old man screamed, then he fell to the floor in a ball, and cried. Jun-Tuk began screaming even though Gina and Henry were the only people who could understand him. “They could have saved her! Had they only helped us reach the continent or halted the Yeti’s abductions, they could have saved her! Were it not for their superstitions, Shunu would still be alive!”
    Gina sat down on the floor next to Jun-Tuk and she cradled him in her arms. Gina barely knew this man but she could only guess at the anguish that he was in. It took a few minutes, but Gina and Henry were finally able to walk Jun-Tuk outside of the hospital. The old man stumbled into a dark corner where he sobbed for nearly a half an hour before he finally walked back over to Gina and Henry. “You speak my language. That means that you are educated. No doubt you are leaders of your people and instruct them with your knowledge.”
    Gina took a step closer to him. “Yes, that is exactly what we do. We teach people and we seek to gain new knowledge. Like knowledge about you and your people.”
    Jun-Tuk looked off in the direction of the ocean. “For too long, my people have forsaken knowledge in favor of fear and superstition. They have let the Yeti and the demons of the valley rule our lives. This fear has cost my daughter her life and many other young girls their lives as well.” He placed his hand on Gina’s shoulder. “You are a teacher who seeks to gain understanding of my people and their ways. I am a person who sees that my people need to be taught in the ways of the modern world in order to move past their fears. I think that we can both help each other. I will take you to my people so that you may study them, but in order for them to allow you access to the tribe you must first prove that the Yeti is nothing more than a beast. That he and the creatures which inhabit the valley are not gods and demons but that they are simply animals.” Jun-Tuk looked into Gina’s eyes. “I warn you, Dr. Murella, that if you are to agree to attempt this expedition, it will place the lives and the lives of all of the others that you take with you in danger.” The hunter took a deep breath. “After my daughter was taken from me, I did something forbidden. I did what no other man in tribe has done before me. I went into the valley of the Yeti. I was only in there in for a short time but when I was in the valley, I saw beasts of tremendous ferocity and power, but they were beasts not demons. That fact that they are not the spawn of the underworld does not make them any less dangerous. The animals in the valley are as deadly as the Yeti himself. With that knowledge in mind, would you still lead your people into the valley?”
    Gina bit her bottom lip and she was silent for moment. She took a quick look at her husband and then she nodded. “We’ll do it.”

Chapter 2
     
    After helping Jun-Tuk make the