There was no discussion. they were going back to paya, end of story. in moments they were gone and robert s gear and our food and everything was just on the trail. mark, are you okay? now it was victor and meg and robert and myself. before we could talk about what we really wanted to do and what our plan was, two of the men that had passed us earlier in the day showed up. one of them was bleeding, and they were completely terrified. apparently they had been cutting bamboo and people had just started shooting at them. that s all they could say. then one of them sort of showed where the third man had been shot, that they killed him. and they continued back to paya where our guides had just run off to. i was trying to delay panic, you ....