"I have been here all day," a young fighter said.

The fighter said nothing, and Midnight smiled, though she didn't turn to look at her companions.

"I feel very comfortable with myself," the 24-year-old fighter said.

But what the fighters actually said was open to interpretation.

"The whole day, they went around the sidewalk," the old fighter said, struggling with the English.

There is water from springs above the caves, the fighters said.

And not a single fighter of our own in sight,' said Kan.

No fighter would say how many were in Khiam during the past month.

The fighters said they were coming in on the 6th.

"You really turn me on," she testified the fighter said.