Chapter ThreeBy the time they reached the Battleship at Tilbury, which was to carry them through the Mediterranean to the nearest Port to Dūric, Giona had begun to recover her spirits a little.
She had been desperately unhappy the night before they left, feeling that it was impossible for her to leave her mother, Chloris and everything she loved for a strange country and a strange husband, the idea of whom frightened her more every time she thought about him.
From the way the Slavonian Ambassador behaved, and also Captain Darius, she was quite certain that there were things being concealed from her which, when she learnt about them, would prove horrifying.
But, as there was nothing she could actually put her finger on, she could not voice her suspicions even to her mother.
Whenever she
