Chapter Five
Under any other circumstances, Felicia would have found the baths enjoyable. They occupied a very large room decorated in Eastern motifs, with colorful draperies, mosaics on the walls and floor, and scented candles burning in ornate sconces. There were two wide and deep pools, full of warm water and set with blue tiles. After so many days kept prisoner in that dark, tiny compartment of the ship, except for those few times they let her out to go to the head, she would have been grateful for the opportunity to wash off all the accumulated sweat and dirt. But her mind kept straying to her immediate future. That set her stomach to fluttering unpleasantly and her hands to shaking. She barely noticed how fine the scented soaps were even as she used them to wash herself. And all the
