Aella and the Greek War against the Romans
The trap was set. Aella held the bow and arrow in her hand steadily. She knew these forests better than anyone else because of her time fighting the Macedonians, and now she lay in wait in the thick underbrush as the night hid her slim figure in its darkness. “General Aella,” Stavros, her advisor, had said to her earlier in the day. “Everything is ready now. The men have been briefed, and your spies have returned confirming the news you had received last week. There will be an attack tonight, and we will be ready.” Aella had simply nodded at that. As a woman, life in the Greek military had never been easy for her. In fact, under normal circumstances, Aella would have not even been allowed to hold this high of a position in …