Chapter 12
Duchy of Aragoni
Marco
WE SAT TALKING for a while, allowing the warm water to relax our muscles. Finally, I said, “Much as I would like to sit here all day, I’m sort of getting hungry.”
“Me, too,” Dani said. “We were up very early this morning and in the air by eight.”
“Let’s move to the tepidarium for a minute to cool down,” Trevor said.
Robes and towels in hand, we slipped into our rubber shoes and walked naked to the next pool. We were surprised to see my father walking in our direction from the far side of the calidarium.
“How do you like our Roman decadence?” he said.
“I like it a lot,” I said.
“Me, too,” Dani said.
“We started in the calidarium,” Trevor said.
“So did I,” Father said, “but on the other side of the pool. I was talking to some people and failed to
