Then there was the issue of their caste system—none but Ampersand and Esperas may speak to the hu-man, and Esperas was the gatekeeper to all the rest of the group. But the group was clearly unhappy. The group was suffering. The ones that were not committing ritualistic suicide were now in open rebellion. While she could advise the well-intentioned bureaucrats of the U.S. government, she couldn’t help the Fremda group if Esperas was keeping them under lock and key.
