Chapter 6
IT WAS NOT a good morning. Johanna woke up feeling ill and things did not get better from there.
She had been told that the sickness only happened at the time that one could not yet tell that a woman was with child, but her body clearly had different ideas.
The tea she’d had for breakfast made a reappearance, and then she was hungry and ate some bread, but that didn’t go down too well either.
Feeling listless and ill, she retired to the couch in the living room where Father came to keep her company.
As usual, he had needed to think about an idea before he formed an opinion on it, but his opinion had formed in favour of Johanna’s plan. In fact, he’d already drafted a letter to be sent to each of the royal houses in the area, and he had come to show it to her.
He had plans, t
