Chapter Six‘I have failed,’ Giona said to herself, ‘and there is nothing more I can do.’
She felt Mithra arranging her hair, then, having placed a beautiful lace veil that her mother had given her over her head, she put on top of it a tiara of stars that Giona learnt had been amongst the Slavonian Crown Jewels for many centuries.
She had been told that she would wear this to the Cathedral, where it would be removed when the King placed a crown on her head and afterwards she would wear it for the return journey.
She hardly listened to what was being said in a monotonous tone by one of her Ladies-in-Waiting because she was quite certain that she would never reach the Cathedral and certainly not go through the Ceremony of marriage with the King.
She could not bear to think of him without
