Sujata awoke groggily. She was the only one standing, naked, unable to move. Her arms were cruelly wedged and bound behind her. She was gagged and totally helpless.
But her eyes were free, she could look around. Egyata, one of her band, must have succumbed in the struggle, for she hung upside down from a tree, motionless, inert. She had fought many times at the right hand of Sujata, but she would fight no more.
Three others were there near her, rigorously bound near her feet, nude, arms wedged behind at impossible angles. All of her wild Amazons, captives.
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