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saddle, throw up her arm in terror as a bolting team of four horses now trampled over her!
We were all yelling and screaming at the top of our lungs, such serving both to "encourage" our
people and to demoralize the enemy here, as well as keeping any surviving officers from taking
command. I had so far shot three arrows, one hit, two misses, a fair ratio considering how rapidly
everyone was moving about now! The woman I'd hit having been struck in the hip, which didn't I'd
noticed here seem to handicap her all that much despite things... She'd dropped her lance, and with
drawn sword, had charged into the woods, seeking out the author of her hurt like an enraged Ti- gon
might, that saber toothed monster caused by The War of 2047.* * It appears that Sanda believed at this
point that such animals were the result of radiation, not genetic experiments made earli- er in the 21st
Century as Lorraine has always claimed here. (JBB)
I took another shot at the woman, missed, the Warrioress now striking down a luckless Peasant lad,
the blood running down her leg from the arrow, which obviously hadn't caused her to lose in- terest in
things as I'd first hoped... My missile attracting her attention, another striking her shield, sticking in it, as
she now charged me with drawn sword, obviously fully intending to see that if she was to die here, she'd
take as many of us with her!!
I dodged back around behind my tree as she charged on past, the armored woman wheeling her
unicorn about, screaming curses at me in her fury, her sword slashing down as I jumped back, unable to
nock another arrow in time! Only the fact that we were in a thick forest allowing me to dodge her sword
slash in time here as I dropped my bow and drew the blade I carried at my own hip now!
"YOU LYS-DAMNED REBEL SLUT OF A BITCH!" she screamed at me, a crossbow bolt now
striking her in the right shoulder then caus- ing her even more troubles, although she didn't drop her
sword, which I'd expected, but came charging right at me again here! I jumped back as the woman flung
herself from the saddle, my sword driving to the hilt up into her body as she came smashing down on top
of me! Her own blade fortunately missing me as I twisted to one side just enough to avoid her last thrust,
the weight of the armored woman smashing me to the ground, my head being "slammed" here against a
root of the tree against which I'd been standing!!
"My Lady!" one of my green clad fighting men cried, running up to me. Everything seeming to
"swim" about before my eyes from the blow to my head, although at least I was still alive, which was
more than I could say for this Sarnian Warrioress whose body my sword blade had pieced for its entire
two foot length here! I had no doubts that she knew she was going to die, and her last thoughts had been
no doubt to try to take me with her! Her face was set in a last snarl of rage, of a fury that spoke much
here! Her eyes seemingly wide in shock, as if she couldn't believe it!!
"I'm... I'm all right!" I answered, my head feeling like it was going to split apart! My forces having
by now mostly "dealt" with the Warrioresses, the survivors having fled back down the trail from which
they'd come, along with the wagon men who'd been able to seize mounts and follow them. We had
achieved a victory, even if it had been by military standards only a mere "skirmish".
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