Chapter 888

• I doubt he complained, or even thought to complain. Who would have taken his place? A smaller sister, aunt, or daughter? Had other males objected? Sure, the battle line in Amazon tactics was not the place of glory. The striking arm were the horse-riders. Countless times adversaries had spent the last minutes of their lives with the echoes of horses, hooves and female Amazon war cries seemingly all around them.
• Some wise old dead fucker once said 'defeat starts in the mind'. I wholeheartedly believed in that – except my version was 'having sex with me starts with my insidious nature'.
• "Defeat starts in the mind," I stared intently into Oneida's eyes. Love poetry is a matter of emotional context, not actual words.