L.J. Writes

Here are the lines from a scene in Artesia Afield, the second volume in the epic fantasy comic book series Artesia written and drawn by Mike Smylie. The titular heroine, Artesia, is a highland captain and sorceress who is leading a host against an ancient empire. In this scene she walks through the camp she commands, talking to her ghosts who are her internal voices. fairladyz2005 and I were talking a lot about ruling queens in ancient East Asia, and I thought the lines in this scene (which reads like an R-rated musical number) are a good encapsulation of the ambition, vanity, and complexity of a powerful woman.



* I put Artesia's lines in bold, her ghosts' in normal typeset, and her bannerman's in italics. I've taken some liberties with punctuation, removing ellipses for the most part.

( What do I want? (Is a little bit racy, mentions of both hetero and lesbian sex) )