" SHAGREENA" cimmerian warrior.....

The wind lurched as if the eruption of wild magic were an arrow in her breast
Her name kept echoing in her head, Shagreena literally meant tough and leathery
She growled for her toughness to reconsider the raw demon of winters test
With flutters and gusts and silent cries, the cold's hold on her came to an end
A whirl of force sprang up around Shagreena, a wind demon with Her, at its center
Her death had come back for her, the LAW she had broken, had come to remind her
She was Cimmerian, descendant of the colonists of Great Atlantis, the northern country
From a race of male warriors she had broken the LAW by taking up her sword
And now the cold and the wind demons were exacting some measure of revenge
"By Crom!" she screamed out in defiance, nothing would stop her from her own revenge
In a blinding flash of speed she whirled her sword and was gone from her shelter
Leaving a wind demon behind her to report back to the legions
And driving her ever southward into the forbidden lands
Nomadic by nature, her lonely trek continued, her hands, began
Counting the days, she would arrive the next
To begin the bloodbath, that would satisfy
Her savageness, ravenous for blood
She knew tomorrow
She would exact
Vengeance
With a sword.....

For an instant, Shagreena felt a cold hand of foreboding on the back of her neck
With an effort, she remembered her purpose, and started silently toward the camp
And remaining down wind of them, she intuited the time was upon her, she spat
She burst among them wielding her sword with such abandon, that two heads
Tumbled to the ground, spurting blood upon her anger, and fueling her final blows
Two legs and then an arm in her empty hand, left gurgling savages upon the ground
She ripped her fathers emblem from a corpse twitching round and round
And still her anger would not be quelled, she threw the leg into the fire
She grumbled to herself, as she watched her meal begin to sizzle
And slowly, satisfaction, smiled
And she lay down
Among the bodies
No one else
Around......

Tony Taylor  (Chicago)