"We<span style="font-style: italic">are</span>winning," Freki replied, shrugging. "But it's very easy for them to trump up the extinction card simply because<span style="font-style: italic">we</span>are the main factor in that whole driving-them-to-the-sea thing. Human soldiers can't rip the limbs off tarantulas. Wasp women can. In concert. Whilst looking much much cuter."<br/><br/>"As to that choice, I never said I'd turn that down. Anyone who would is too<span style="font-style: italic">proud</span>to survive," he adds, then grins. "I do believe there is some saying about it being the deadliest sin or some such."