Last of the Amazons (2003)
“The lot, as fate would have it, fell to me, as trikona-mate to Eleuthera, who stood the same to Antiope. It was my role, not only to dress our war queen in corselet and armor, but to select and whet the warheads of her arrows, repaint the blood gutters in ritual jet and ochre, and to razor-fletch the flight feathers. She took four only, one for each cardinal point, with three bronze-sheathed javelins, and a single pelekus, the double axe. None other may attend, save a priestess of Artemis Ephesia to prompt the verses of the ceremony. I must bathe Antiope, apart in the Willow House, which sat astride the thermal springs of the Borysthenes marsh, and donate from my own trove that mirror of bronze by whose reflection our queen would know her soul in the life after, and which, if she were slain, would be buried yoked to her right wrist. In that event I must bear her body from the field and deliver it to Eleuthera and Stratonike, the mates of her High Trikona, who would bear the corpse to ...Hippolyta, her mother-mother, for burial.MoreLess
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