BRITOMART (Having been deputed by Bazguul (
) to lead the counter-strike, she is frustrated to see the opposing army slipping into the town. Looking around, she sees her advance fouled on th knot of resistance developing around Eliza and Blandamour. She spurs he horrse forward and immediately sees the banneret of Blandamour, which Eliza has stuck in the ground beside her. She barely notices the slight figure of her former slave, hidden as she is by the armor, but she knows that flag, having lost the privilege of carrying it, once, long ago. Blandamour of the Iron Arm! Yes, there he is, towering over everyone else as he beheads the troll he is fighting. No-one had ever defeated him in the lists, it was said. Well, she would just see. She slams her visor shut and lowers her lance.) "Ho, there, you, Blandamour! I hear that bird on your crest is a chicken, and that your mother was a whore! Fight me, now!"