”Cordelia continued with her story. They met Laura’s original group. Julie and Hailey were with Laura too. Laura strongly urged Cordelia and her g...oup to join her, and Cordelia had no objections. But after a week of living in the large group, she learned that Julie and Hailey had originally resisted Laura’s urgings. As a result the two women were being treated as slaves.Things got worse. Kelly showed up about at the pyramid about a week after Cordelia, and the two groups began to fight for. ’ Spike turned, looking triumphant and set off back down the stairs. Diane followed a few minutes later. ‘Did he come out?’ ‘No,’ she said. ‘What did you do that for? You’ve ruined the whole evening. and for what?’ said Diane. ‘What the fuck do you mean?’ ‘You’ve had me, you were getting what you wanted. Why did you have to humiliate him?’ ‘You did the same earlier.’ ‘Yes, and I wish I hadn’t. He’s my husband, I’ll decide who humiliates him. He’s had a rotten day. I was a day late coming home. Considering the tumult of the last month, he was grateful to come out of it unscathed.She had taken the news of her stepmother’s divorce with an easy ambivalence that surprised him.He mused on that, perhaps it was the contentment of knowing that Eva would soon be her ex-stepmother. Maybe her sunnier disposition was because she had taken up a flat with Becky. Cally’s father was bankrolling her new found independence with an allowance and also a car.Clearly the divorce was unmitigated good news. .I never learned what they were. But they could fly, and they wereabsolutely ruthless. They didn't fight fair with swords and shields butblasted everything and everyone they saw with some kind of lightningshooting guns that looked like evil magic to me!After laying waste to much of Themyscira they were coming toward ourneighborhood---mom was holding me, we were both crying and choking on thesmoke from all the fires---when our missing princess showed up and turnedthe tide of the war.She called.