"Huh? Wha-? What am I doing here? And what is this? I'm tied down! Why?"
"Do you mean to tell me that you honestly don't remember?"
"There was a battle, wasn't there?"
"Yeah! With you Amazons, there's always a battle! And guess what? You guys lost!"
"But we all got pretty well beat up!
So when you offered yourself as the centerpiece for our small victory ceremony, provided that we let the others go ...
Our War Queen thought that it might not be such a bad idea to take you up on it!
And so, here we are!"
"I did what?"
"Ha! You really don't remember, do you?"
"That drug our Medicine Woman gave you must have really knocked you for a loop!"
"But - Now, wait a minute!
We Amazons aren't into human sacrifce!
Enough of us are killed in battle as it is!
Too many, in fact!"
"That's true enough, I suppose!
But you might want to bear in mind that not every woman who takes up a knife is an Amazon!"
"But what of the others?
You don't mean to tell me that they all just calmly walked away and left me to your tender mercy?"
"But you see, my dear?
That's just precisely what they did!"
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"I think I'm gonna cry ... (sniff)
Oh ... Please don't let me weep ...
I never expected that it would ever come to this!"
"Well ... If it's any comfort to you ...
I don't believe that anyone ever does!"
"But you see? I'm really not in any great rush to get started ...
Your cohorts have all departed ... What few of them remained!
And so there is absolutely no one to interfere with us!"
"But ... Wait a minute!
"I may not be a suitable sacrifice!"
"No? And why not?"
"I'm not a virgin!"
"Oh for the Love of Pete!
Where did you ever get the idea that we limited ourselves to cutting up virgins?
And how do stories like that get started, anyway?"
"Well ... Then ... Do as you must!
Just get it over with! As quickly as possible!"
"Oh! Now wait just a minute!
Whatever was I thinking of?"
"Gosh! I almost got carried away and stabbed you in the chest!
An Ancient Tradition requires that with any and every sacrificial victim ...
The initial thrust must be made to and through the navel!"
"Unngh! This is not as easy as it looks!
You'd have thought that the blade would slide right in, wouldn't you?
Sister ... Either you are one helluva lot tougher than you look ...
Or Peter forgot to sharpen this knife ... Again!"
"Ahhh! There it goes!"
"Arrrgh! Pull it out! Pull it out!"
"Oh, no! Not so fast!
What's your hurry?
You weren't planning on going anywhere, were you?
Let's rock the blade a bit!
Shall we?
Why, certainly!
First we rock it up ..."
"And then we rock it down!"
"You know?
This entire process would be a lot easier if this knife had a double-edged blade"
"Oh God! You're killing me!"
"You know? As much as I hate to be the one to break the news to you ...
But that is the general idea!"
"Okay! Now, I'll tell you what ... I'm gonna pull the knife out of your navel!"
"But ... Now, here's the deal!
I don't want you to go squirting blood all over me!
It's sticky! Messy!
Besides which ... I just took a bath, and I don't want that yucky stuff getting in my hair!"
"There! See how nice and neat that was?
And the best part is ...
We've only just begun!"
"Now ... See if you can guess where I'll stab you next!"
"Please! No more!"
"Oh, come on! Be a good sport! Guess!"
"I don't wanna die!
Not this way!
No Amazon warrior ever was slaughtered this way!"
"Well, now ... I have to differ with you on that account ...
Because, you see,
I've been fortunate enough to have been granted the opportunity to plunge a knife into quite a number of you Amazons!"
"And you, my friend ...
Are a fine, lusty warrior, if ever there was one!
And so I have my work cut out for me ...
For, despite the severity of your wounds ...
You will take a long time to die!"
"You are wondering what else I have in store for you, aren't you, my dear?"
"Well, now you shall soon see the advantage of having this fine, full breast ...
Can't you imagine just how deep this knife must pass into your flesh ere it strikes any vital organ?"
"But then, what could be more vital to a woman than her breasts?
Now that, I'd really like to know!"
"Ah! I think I just struck paydirt!"
"No doubt about it! It won't be long now!"
"Let's see now ...
Was that blade in deeper than its ever been?
Well ... Perhaps not ...
But it sure went further than its been in a while!"
"Even as many times as I've seen it ...
It always kind of gives me the creeps when the dead stare at me like this!"
"One thing's for sure ...
The Gods must be well pleased with our offering today!"
"No ..
Bodies such as this don't come along every day of the week!"
"Well done, Cassandra! Well done!"
"I am glad that you are pleased, my Queen!"
"Yes! The Gods must be well pleased!
Well pleased, indeed!
My!
Such splendid shoulders!
The depth and breadth of bosom!
And an Amazon too!
How rare!
And a Tzarrbird in the bargain!
And a War Queen, too!
One can know by that extraordinary tatoo!
Cassandra!
You simply must be suitably rewarded!"
Oh! But don't speak of a reward, my Queen!
I only did my duty, after all!"
"Yes! And that is a fact!
Still ...
It's only fitting that you have a little something!
Right ...
Here!"
"Huunngh!!"
