The gems are nothing, but the steel is tried and true." Lal Singh selected the simplest, salaamed and slid the scabbard through his cummerbund.
As for Kathlyn, she could not keep her eyes off the beautiful chain cuirass which had once upon a time been worn by one of Pundita's forebears, a warrior queen.
"Beautiful, beautiful!" she exclaimed.

"Pundita, may I put it on?
And tell me the story of the warrior queen.

To be brave like that, to fight side by side with the man she loved!" She put the cuirass on.
The sky was yellow when the little army started off upon its desperate enterprise.

A guard was left behind for the women.
Pundita solemnly gave each of the girls a dagger.

War! Rebellion! Great clamor and shouting before the palace stairs! "Give us Umballa and the council!" Umballa heard the shouting, and at first did not understand; but soon the truth came to him.