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The Price of Wind
A thousand ships. No wind. A goddess named her price, and the price was a daughter. A gold sail hangs slack over still water. A girl stands at the altar. A hind waits beside her. The front carries the moment before the wind.
The Story
At Aulis the sea went flat.
A thousand ships lay at anchor for Troy and the sails hung slack. Artemis had taken the wind. The seer Calchas named what it would cost to return it: the king's eldest daughter.
Agamemnon sent for Iphigenia with a lie about a wedding. She came down to the shore dressed for a marriage. What waited at the altar was not a groom.
The knife fell on a hind. The girl was gone — carried across the sea to Tauris, a priestess of the goddess who had asked for her. The wind rose. The fleet sailed. Nothing in the war that followed was ever clean.
The front carries the shore at Aulis, held inside the shape of a sail: the masts on the horizon, the girl, the altar bowl, the hind. The wind is not in the picture. It is the thing being paid for.
Cut for women who were asked to carry what other people's wars demanded. Some sacrifices are named heroic. Some are simply survived.
The Details
Care
Machine wash cold, inside out, with similar colours. Do not bleach. Do not tumble dry. Iron on reverse if needed. The fabric softens with each wash but holds its form.
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping across India. Dispatched within 1-2 business days. 7-day return window from delivery. Item must be unworn, unwashed, with tags intact.
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