![]() ![]() I trusted Antiope deeply and instinctively. ![]() And as I matched my movements with Antiope's, shifting softly, like water at the edge of a quiet ocean, I recognized the brilliance held in even so subtle a trained and disciplined movement of the many that shaped her life. Without conscious thought, Antiope trusted the powerful, magnificent animal beneath us to protect both of them along with myself. I so wanted to match myself to their company that I took up that same subtle movement, and I could feel at once the way Antiope matched her center of gravity to Aegis's to ensure that any sudden movement – rearing, bolting, turning – that Aegis made, no matter how fierce, would not be able to send her to the ground. I thought it strange that a body so strong could be moved so easily, and I noticed then a similar movement in the other Amazons who surrounded us. I remember distinctly how I could feel the soft shift in the breastplate of Antiope's armor against my back and realizing that she moved ever so slightly with her horse's gait, swaying side to side. I could feel the power in Aegis soft steps as she made her way along paths through the woods. So when Antiope lifted me and placed me on the back of her warhorse, my chest swelled with pride simply to be included, even if I could not yet ride alone like one of the others. I made no protest to this, as Antiope had always said I was still a little too young to train for war. She said I could sit before her on Aegis, her great warhorse. ![]() Antiope said then that I did not yet know how to trust a horse, and so a horse would not possibly know how to trust me. That would the first time I joined a party of Amazons training themselves to face war, although I was still too young to be allowed to ride on my own. A longing to touch the depths of Clio's insights sent me out on that first adventure, the very first I ever took. I remember when The Treatises first began to shape my experience of this life. ![]()
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