QUOTE : Bloody North,” said Shev as she picked her way towards it and had a tentative drag at the ropes. “Even their bridges are shit.”<br /><br />“Their men are good,” said Javre, clattering out with no fear whatsoever. “Far from subtle, but enthusiastic.”<br /><br />“Great,” said Shev as she edged after, exchanging a mutually suspicious glance with a crow perched atop one of the posts. “Men. The one thing that interests me not at all.”<br /><br />“You should try them.”<br /><br />“I did. Once. Bloody useless. Like trying to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even speak your language, let alone understand the topic.”<br /><br />“Some are certainly more horizontally fluent than others.”<br /><br />“No. Just no. The hairiness, and the lumpiness, and the great big fumbling fingers and . . . balls. I mean, balls. What’s that about? That is one singularly unattractive piece of anatomy. That is just . . . that is bad design, is what that is.