
in one life, agrippina had been raised to anticipate this. exiled beside her mother, she had drank in julia's words as wine and milk: promises that her father would mount a rescue, that her grandfather would relent and call them back.
that the husband to which julia had been married would beg for her return.
in time, all lies. all graceless lies.
my lady. in oberon's kind voice, she heard an opportunity.
ram.
up in these reserves, there would be many of the surefooted beasts.