Chapter 20
JOHANNA HAD STAYED away much longer than she had expected. It was now time for supper before getting ready for church. And she was going to church tonight. She was going to confront the shepherd, and was not going to back down.
In fact, she wasn’t going to take no for an answer ever again. She had asked Li Fai to come to the church as well. If what they were facing was as bad as her visions had indicated, then she would need him badly.
In the dining room at the palace, she found Father and Roald at the dinner table. Father had the stack of letters and the draft plan on the table. For a change, Roald seemed to be listening.
Johanna sat quietly on the far end of the table, and ate while watching Father explain the plans that they had prepared and that had so skilfully been thw
