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deserved to get it for embarrassing us both.
"Although you did make your mothers `proud' of you," Queen Darlanis smiled in
reply. There could be no doubt now who be- longed to who. Perhaps, I mused to
myself, it was for the best.
"I'm just glad you didn't go at each other with your dag- gers," I smiled,
both girls having been so armed as Princesses.
"Our argument just got a bit `out of hand'," Gayle admitted. "We would have
never used weapons on each other!" she protested!
"I guess there's no doubt now who Sharon `belongs to'," Dar- lanis said to me
as we stood that evening overlooking the harbor, the sun setting there in the
west. We were crowned Queens, rul- ers of our respective countries. I had come
a long way since I had flown through the "Gateway" little over some three
months ago with Sharon. Yet "losing" Sharon still hurt although I had Gayle to
take her place. And little Mara and Ta-she-ra, whose mother's bravery would
never be forgotten. I had a good marriage, a hus- band who loved me for what I
was as a person, not as the Queen of Trelandar. I had wealth, power,
everything anyone could want in this barbaric era. Yet why did everything blur
before me then?
"Tell me your thoughts, Lorraine," Darlanis said to me, touching my hand where
it rested there on the edge of the marble.
"I fear what will happen if we do what we plan to do," I told her. I knew what
such a political campaign would be like. It would not be like the
"Republicans" or "Democrats" back in the 20th
Century. There was too much at stake here. Too many people had died already in
the Revolution. Civil war was now a danger. There was also the risk of an
"economic revolution" of the sort that had given
Lenin power in Russia so many centuries ago now... Syndicalism is superior to
Capitalism, although
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"I have given my word as Empress to those who support me," Darlanis answered
in level tones. I
knew she couldn't violate the trust that her people had put in her. She was of
the Warrio- resses. Our word is our "bond". Her azure eyes glowed into my own
as I nodded, understanding. Could our friendship survive it?
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"Sanda is thinking of extending our Revolution to Sarn, Or- gon, and then
Talon," I answered back.
No doubt Queen Dala Dai would have something to say about that! Talon's "air
force" was greatly feared although the great birds weren't really all that
dangerous to well trained and equipped ground forces. I also had Black Lady,
which gave me "air power" of my own up against Talon.
"Which means I might `win' a country divided against itself and torn by civil
war," Darlanis smiled back. She is not a "dumb blonde" despite what you might
think of her. "And have to deal with you and
Sanda and all her radical ideas behind my back too," Darlanis added,
understanding much. Blood could flow for years!
"I think there should be an `Empire of California'," I said. "Ruled by an
Empress who is tall and golden and very beautiful."
"Sanda will never `go along' with that," Darlanis warned me, her eyes
glistening as they glowed into mine. The sun now gone, leaving only behind the
twilight before the night to come. The Moon was high in the sky, glowing down
upon us, as it perhaps one time had glowed down upon the dinosaurs millions of
years before.
"Trelandar will be semi-independent," I explained, seeing Darlanis nodding in
agreement. "We will run our own internal af- fairs. I will be Queen,
`Leaderess', whatever is decided, but you will be our new
`Janet Rogers' able to say, `Lorraine, I won't allow that'." I respected
Darlanis. Loved her as a sister of the sword. We had stood together, side by
side, together. We were both of the Warrioresses. We lived by much the same
Codes.
"We have a lot to work out," Darlanis warned me. There were various formal
requirements that would have to be set down in writing. No doubt the
negotiations would take some time to work out.
"Understandings" would have be made. A "Constitution" per- haps written.
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