A story in the World of Cronos Universe
Queen Alera, a deadly elf queen whose cunning and military prowess is the best the continent has ever seen leads her army against an invading Orc Horde. She does not give her opponent their proper respect and is quickly outmatched.
I had just replaced my broken flat bed a4 scanner with a small a6 one but this time it came with a built in transparency and negative light. So when I was in the attic replacing the Christmas decoration, I looked around and found the big cardboard box with all my holiday pictures in and brought it down. Forgotten at the bottom of the box was an a4 envelope containing a dozen or so very early picture of my 1st wife, taken within months of meeting her, so she would be about 17.