SE XXVIII

"I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say it because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her." —Ellen DeGeneres

"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions." —Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If we act like prey, they'll act like predators" —Alyxandra Harvey, My Love Lies Bleeding (Drake Chronicles, #1)

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Every Sultenian was mobilized. Every fighter they have, trained and underwent grueling teachings to survive any predicament life could give them. In front of the hundred men was the stunning Lakambini, wearing the blood-stained white dress handmade and perfected by her fellow women.