This weeks photo prompt:
She looked out over the field of Gauls with a cool and calm eye. Andromeda had little in the way of armor, but she knew that the lines her Father and the man she loved most in the world, Antony had were in danger of falling away to the Gallic forces. She had to do something she was the Daughter of Caesar! While she had been born female, she had long been raised on the campaign trail learning how to fight by watching and then as she grew in secret with Antony teaching her skills she could use on the field of battle. He never treated her just like a girl, he wanted her to know how to fight. Now with a woman’s sense of things she knew part of it was because he found it arousing when a woman fought, but she also knew that he wanted her to be able to protect herself. At this moment she would now use those skills to help them. Slowly she turned her eyes to the small legion of men she had rounded away from the main thick of battle, good man’s part of the 13th they would never purposely break the line but the barbarians had broken one of the columns and the troops floundered.
She knew she was dressed scantily, the long togas of a Roman woman would never do to battle. So instead she had taken the under top of one of her Mothers, may she rest well with the Gods Egytpian tops and cut a skirt until it was short. A roman red stripe of cloth covered her mouth and nose against the dust and stench so her senses of smell and taste would not betray her. Now she had full range of movement even if a lot of flesh showed, if anything she supposed it would serve as some kind of distraction to the barbaric. Perhaps she would be raped, or killed, but she would go down fighting and hope that it would turn the tides of the battle. Cooly is gripping the heavy shield and the sturdy Roman spear, a sword strapped at her hip she turned to the men. “Will you rally to me?” the men clanked their swords to their shields, those who had them those who did not to their armor “We will” they said in true roman unison. Andromeda nodded that was all she needed she turned her eyes back to the battle at hand “For Rome! For Antony and For CAESAR!” she cried the men following her cry in turn as they moved of swift legs straight into the thick of battle.
