Before sealing Wolf Mountain, Huo Qubing asked Liu Two-Dog:
"Big Brother, what are you really after? The world thinks you died. Yet here you are bleeding for the Han."
Two-Dog drove his butcher knife into the snow and stared north:
"After? Just one thing Piggy told me in that cell:
'Your Highness, live like a man.'
I'm living like a man now. So every soul in the Han must be allowed to live like one too.
As long as the Xiongnu breathe, the people of Han will live on their knees."
Huo Qubing's eyes reddened. He punched Two-Dog's shoulder:
"Good! Then we ride to the northern desert and make the Xiongnu too afraid to ever look south again!"