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June 1984
Wrocław, Śląsk
PRL (Polish People's Republic)
'Better. Elbow higher. And your head is not straight.'
I try to stand straighter. Raise my elbow. My straining arm muscles cause the bow to shake.
Well. It's partly the straining.
'Legs further apart. Relax your arm, don't pull so hard. You are playing a harp, not strangling a chicken.'
I'm sweating. She puts her hands on my waist to correct my posture. Again, that warmth and strength in those hands.
It's...nice.
'An Amazon archer can fire two arrows per second. Accurately. We only have an hour, but I can show you a few things.'
What sort of things? I try to control my breathing, with no success. Her hands move again and I feel her breasts push gently against the side of my head. Touching the side of my face. I smell her pe

All parts: cracoviia.deviantart.com/galle…

For the history and symbolism fans, that's the 1945-89 symbol of Wrocław, which I think is much nicer than the post-1989 one which is really cluttered. White eagle on red for Poland, black eagle on gold for Silesia. Chosen to tell people in Silesia 'yes, Silesia is really Polish, awesome super Polish, most Polish place ever!!!' so that they would forget that until 1945 most of Silesia was in Germany, and that Poland was given eastern German territory to compensate the Soviets annexing eastern Poland...

Also, note that the eagle on the flag has no crown, as referenced in Blossom a couple of times.

Pyrrah is the character of the excellent ...AA hasn't shown Pyrrah doing anything like this but I didn't see anything in the excellent Amazon Timeline that would prevent her popping over to Poland to meet an old friend in the 80s...feel free to correct anything wrong though

EDIT: The Amazon Arrow and Dartgirl comics can be found here: amazonarrow.deviantart.com/gal…. I had the idea that eastern bloc comic writers would copy them but change them round, taking the very real AA, Dartgirl and the Red Tetrarch -

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 and making the two 'Americans' the bad guys. So in the Polish version, the protagonist is the superheroine Biała Błyskawica, who is fairly powerful but is regularly captured and put in peril by the evil Amazon Arrow, needing to be saved by the heroic Soviet Red Tetrarch - a classic example of anti-western and pro-Moscow propaganda common in Poland from 1945-89. I might make some BB comic covers some time