The entire summit turned out to be not so bad. Well, for me, for Maddox, it was a living hell.
How could I've known that when I asked my cousins to play nice, they would come up with the idea of messing with Maddy's pride, constantly challenging him, once at a drinking game, then at arms wrestling, or any other ridiculous male rite of passage. And Maddy turned out to be… just as dumb as the rest of the entire male population, falling into their traps each time.
It turned out to be absolutely true on my part that I would have to hold someone's hair while they heave during this trip. But it wasn't Uliana, and it wasn't so much about holding hair, than holding an entire head and making sure my stupid mate wouldn't drown in the toilet bowl.
Okay, it's on me that I didn't make sure he h
