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Date Posted: Sun, August 07 2022, 17:48:15
Author: kgp
Subject: QOTD for Monday, August 8, 2022

The following quotation is from Written In my Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon. Copyright 2014 All Rights Reserved. Chapter 72 Morasses and Imbroglios


Ian felt them before he saw them. The sense of a hunting animal, lying concealed in the wood, waiting for prey to come down to drink. He turned his horse sharply and rode along the creek bank, watching the trees on the other side.

Movement, a horse’s head tossing against flies. A glimpse of a face - faces - painted, like his own.

A thrill of alarm shot up his spine and instinct flattened him against the horse’s neck, as the arrow whizzed over his head. It stuck, quivering, in a nearby sycamore.

He straightened, his own bow in his hand, nocked an arrow in the same movement, and sent it back, aiming blind for the spot where he’d seen them. The arrow shredded leaves as it went but struck nothing - he hadn’t expected it to.

“Mohawk!” came a derisory shout from the other side, and a few words in a language he didn’t understand but whose intended meaning was clear enough. He made a very Scottish gesture, whose meaning was also clear, and left them laughing.

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[> Ian is just so cool! Any idea what the Scottish gesture is? Lol -- Kathy in PA, Tue, August 09 2022, 13:49:52


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[> [> Probably the victory sign only turned around -- Margaret, Tue, August 09 2022, 15:22:45


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[> [> [> Is that like our middle finger up? -- Kathy in PA, Wed, August 10 2022, 3:17:18


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[> [> [> [> Yes. Very rude. -- kgp, Wed, August 10 2022, 17:10:31


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