Meet Nensela, the protagonist of my short story Scorpions of the Sea. She’s an admiral of the Kushite navy who is on a personal mission to hunt down the Arabian pirates who took away her brother Akhraten when she was a girl. However, she is in for a nasty surprise when she discovers what truly happened to him.
Those ivory pieces hanging from her necklace are fly medals, which in the ancient Egyptian and Kushite cultures were awarded to warriors for demonstrating martial bravery.