CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
Sophia was back in Monthys, the flames rising around her. She was there with Kate, and their nursemaid was there, trying to lead them to safety. They heard the voices of the men who had come to kill them, and Sophia knew what was coming next because she’d seen it so many times before.
“Go and hide,” their nursemaid said. “Get away when you can.”
The dream shifted, so that she and Kate were hiding in a space too small for any adult, listening to their nursemaid’s screams… only now they were different screams and this wasn’t Monthys. Sophia heard a baby’s cries, and she was walking through the corridors of the palace, surrounded by dying people in soldiers’ uniforms, searching for her daughter.
She knew without being told that her daughter was in danger, yet Sophia cou
