This pass was next to the ocean and there was no good way around it, and there was a hot spring nearby, so the pass was known as the ‘hot gates’, ...r in Greek ‘Thermopylae’.When the Persian advance guard reached the pass, there were 1000 or so Greeks there to defend it. They tried to rush the pass, but got thrown back with horrible losses. The Spartan soldiers WERE better than the Persian soldiers, and numbers can only do so much. In the confined space of the pass, superior numbers didn’t mean. ”“Mishka,” she said gently. “You are my first lover, and the one I want to experience everything with. I’ve told you that for a long time!”“But this?”“Well, I didn’t know about it until perhaps a month ago!” she replied. “But I did tell you there were no restrictions and no limits in the marriage bed!”“But we’re not in our marriage bed?”“Either it’s our honeymoon, or it’s simply a wonderful love affair with a man I love. Either way, this is exactly like the marriage bed, even if we do not. I fell in love with him long ago, on a previous documentary shoot amongst the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert. Michael was still married, and I was involved with a woman. The time wasn’t right. But now, in Egypt, my luck might change, or my life might be over before I can have him between my legs. Yesterday, during siesta, Michael got up and stood naked at the window overlooking the meandering, dirty Nile River. He spread his arms to hold onto the sides of the window, looking like Samson. "Banzai bent down, checked his back and said, "Sir I think your back is broken, but don't worry, we will be careful and you still might be able to walk."Banzai looked at me and said, "Jack, I have an idea, wait here."He ran back to the destroyed Humvee, grabbed his rifle case, ran back to the Captain and said, "Sir, we are going to transport you on my rifle case so we don't damage your back any more."We carefully log-rolled the Captain onto his side, Banzai put his rifle case against the.