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letra de "two lionesses" - jessica law & marion leeper

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[spoken: narrator]
choosing death in battle as a warrior’s way out, bradamante set off straight away for the centre of the fray. after more dangers and desperate adventures than we have time to tell, she arrived, and threw herself into battle, looking for the sleek figure of her rival

and when she and marfisa met, it was like the clash of two lionesses; like waves breaking against a cliff, or lightning splitting a mountain top. they grappled and tumbled and rolled down a valley slope to land at the feet of a marble tomb – the burial place of the old necromancer atlas

ruggiero, dancing around them, drew his sword to stop marfisa harming his beloved bradamante, when a great cry from the tomb shattered the air. “stop! ruggiero! don’t k!ll marfisa! she is your sister!”

it was the voice of atlas. it turned out, he had cheated death one last time: his ghost had waited on this very spot to give ruggiero a final piece of advice. there would have been more, but bradamante interrupted:

“you’re his sister? i thought you were gonna get married!”
“marry him?” snorted marfisa “i was nursing him back to health so that i could smash the living daylights out of him. you don’t know how he insulted me.”

at this, bradamante understood that they truly were brother and sister
“then you are my sister too.” bradamante hugged marfisa, and then she and ruggiero embrace

the three swore to meet in six months time at the fair monastery of vallombrosa, where ruggiero and bradamante would get married, and would never be seperated again – and so it might have turned out, if ruggiero hadn’t decided to go on one last adventure. he didn’t know it would end up with him being shipwrecked on a desert island. with nothing to do but sit, and think…

- jessica law marion leeper

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