title: She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
author:  Elizabeth Norton 
description: Elizabeth Norton studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge, specialising in Anglo-Saxon and later medieval topics. Her Masters from the University of Oxford was on Anglo-Saxon England.
zlib_text: THE QUEEN OF TIME
  
  2570 A.D.!
  
  A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE SECOND DARK AGE
  
  By Jerome B. Bigge
  
  Chapter Thirty Nine
  
        "Dogs seem `scared' of something," June Colt said to me as I slipped the flame thrower's harness over my shoulders, the weight of the weapon such that I regretted making it so "heavy" here. My husband standing there beside the opening watching me, a crossbow in his hands, with Keri at his side armed with a bow. I had brought with us miner's lamps, working on carbide, which I'd felt would be more suitable for conditions like those we were now likely to find below. The thought going through my mind just then as I stood there now burdened down by the flame thrower as to why I still took such "risks" when I had June and her hundred Warrioresses, the finest fighting women in Trelandar, to do it? Queen Amethysta there watching me, the sun glinting off her hair. 
  
        "Probably too `dark' even for their eyes," I answered, know- ing that it was a lie, that the dogs sensed