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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 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 harm Marfisa! She is your sister!’

It turned out that the necromancer had cheated death one last time: his ghost had waited on this very spot to give Ruggiero this final piece of advice. There would have been more, but Bradamante interrupted:

‘You’re his sister? I thought you were going to 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 once Bradamante understood that they were truly brother and sister.
‘Then you are my sister too.’ Bradamante hugged Marfisa, and then she and Ruggiero embraced.

The three swore to meet in six months time at the fair monastery of Vallombrosa, where Ruggiero and Bradamante would get married, and they would all live happily ever after – and so they might have done, if Ruggiero hadn’t decided to go on one last adventure. He didn’t know it would end up in him being shipwrecked on a desert island. With nothing to do but sit, and think….

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from Lovers and Fighters, released April 29, 2020

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"Packed with emotion, surprise and wit." - The Daily Album
“Someone… who’d probably get laughed off the X-Factor for not being exactly the same as everyone else.” – Nightshift Magazine
"A collection of intriguing folk songs, packed with expressive lyrics, strange rhythms and creative instrumentation." - Ocelot Magazine ... more

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