I really do need to stop sleeping with soldiers. Next time I’m feeling…needy…I might have to look elsewhere. There are a few unattached men in the village, but Tana says they’re interested in something more serious. I don’t want anything serious. I’m only twenty. Not ready to devote myself to somebody else. Other people’s relationships seem suffocating, and I’ve witnessed so many women bending to a man’s every whim. I don’t bend.
