“ The world cannot be full of lead dogs, or the pack would pull itself apart. ”
He would never understand women, he thought. They were life’s great mystery.
~ Conn Iggulden
For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.
History was more than just stories, he reminded himself as the men walked forward with their burdens. It taught lessons as well.
Xuan smiled at the thought of men sleeping peacefully next to those they would try to kill in daylight. Only humanity could have conceived such a strange and artificial way to die. Wolves might tear the flesh of deer, but they never slept and dreamed near their quarry.
