Hunter teaches me to fight and to defend myself. He says all of the members of the tribe must know how to protect himself and each other from attack, and Papa Lo agrees. Even we shamans have to know some of the basic skills of combat. "You won’t always have the luxury of fighting in the Matrix," Hunter says. "Sometimes an enemy will come looking for you in the real world. Those times, it’s best to be somewhere else when they come looking, but if you can’t, then you need to know how to fight."