A snippet from a story I'm writing for another forum.
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Aliran produced a tablet and turned it on. She browsed her gallery until she found the movie she was looking for.
"'Look."
The movie seemed to have been recorded with a handheld camera. It depicted, originally, a square surrounded by wooden buildings. The people gathered were dressed in a simple tunics, except for a dark-haired, curly lady and a boy around Ben's age.
"This is a magician and a noblewoman", explained Aliran, "and this is her son."
"Is this - Meirenn?"
Aliran nodded.
Standing opposite to them was a girl of about eighteen. She wore single tunic and she wore her hair in a ponytail. She and the woman were quarreling in an unknown language.
"The dispute is about a boy", she said, "About whose lover he's to be."
The boy said something to his mother.
"He says that she doesn't have to to this."
Eventually, though, the woman stepped into the center of the square, and so did the girl. The girl was the first to discard the tunic and nakedly face her opponent. The lady began to strip almost hesitantly, slowly, discarding her garments one by one.
Eventually, a group of local women laughed at her and jumped her, and without much ceremony relieved her of what little she was wearing. The two opponents were now facing each other in their naked glory: the fresh, young and beautiful blonde against the older, but nonetheless statuesque woman.
What followed was difficult to describe. The women threw themselves in a dirt, fighting like two tigresses. The boy cheered his naked mother on as she desperately fought against her young opponent. Ben watched the spectecle, spellbound, when Taliran abruptly turned off the device.
"We're there", she said.
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End of snippet. If you like it, I might post the link to full story.
