Katryn had already contacted her Navajo friend from middle school, Cody Standing Bear, regarding the One Hundred and Fourteenth Verse and it's possible implications regarding translation and codes. Cody was 90 years old now. He had been one of the army's secret code talker/translators in World War Two, and Standing Bear had some interesting things to say about the entire Dillinger Sang document.
"There is an obvious flippant defiance in these word choices in many sections, especially the last verse. Use of terms like Severus, Gandhi, and Volga, clearly indicate that the writer knows advanced cryptography, almost like he's playing with us, and I almost think that I am keeping blinders on while listening to this. I am afraid of what I might find if I really try to decipher this."
And with that, Cody backed out of the project, and demanded he not be contacted again regarding it. Something in that song really spooked him.
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