One of Red Sonja's first assignment as a young warrior girl was to approach the positions to the Eastern Hyborian army as far as she could come, in an effort to temporarily attract some attention away from other parts of the offensive.
Cimmerian warrior girls were usually outfitted with a hand weapon, like a sword or spear, and a scale mail bikini. The youngest girls were not allowed to wear bikini tops.
Boots and gloves were added on winter days.
On even colder days, a fur cloak was also included.
On particulary cold, windy and snowy winter days, all young Cimmerian warrioresses were deprived of all their garments, which were redistributed to higher prioritized divisions, forcing the girls to go into battles with nothing but their hand weapons.
Fortunately, all the arrows that hit Red Sonja on this mission went into or through non-vital parts of her body. Although her wounds were not immediately lethal, lying naked on the ground in this weather would have caused her to freeze to death within an hour. But the deep, fluffy snow she felt into covered her body and gave some protection against the freezing wind, and her restless writhing in agony contributed further to slow the freezing of her body.
Her best hope for survival was that the Cimmerians won the battle, found her and decided to bring her to safety soon enough.
Unfortunately for her, the East Hyborians won and eventually found her deep in the snow, uncontrollably shaking and barely alive.
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