Once the man-child was expelled (a Garden of Eden motif) by lawyers and thrust into the outer world (to experience both extremes - the inner city and the world of the wealthy, powerful, and elite, and a woman named Eve!), he maintained his primal, archetypal, semi-enlightened innocence and restrained detachment.The officer shakes his fist at Willie, but the young son declines to fight and urns away.Bill, Sr.demonstrates how to fight by making a fist with Willie""s hand and shoving/punching it into the officer""s face, sending him overboard into the water."Balthus and the red-robed cultists hiked with torches through the jungle to the Oasis, encountering along the way the skeletal remains (with shrunken heads) of previous explorers (Roman legionnaires from Julius Caesar""s time, and turn of the century French legionnaires from Napoleon""s time), some of whom had been imprisoned in cages.During a "last stand" against the fearsome creature, Girion had attempted to slay it using Black Arrows fired from a mounted windlance crossbow.