Adara too settled into a routine with her parents, helping them, busying herself with whatever tasks were needed. She even painted with her mother and daughter, beginning the process of adorning the walls of that humble domus so that with every brush stroke, every creature, every leaf, life was breathed into it.
Despite all of this, Lucius and Adara knew that a visit to the sanctuary to purify themselves and honour the god who had brought them there to safety beneath the protective embrace of those shining mountains, was needed.
Since his first talk with his mother, Lucius considered what he would say and do in the sanctuary at a time when Apollo was said not to be there at all. In winter, it was Dionysus who presided over Delphi, who guarded the sacred ways of that sanctuary, rich in or
