There were people all around her, people everywhere, dressed as she had never seen people dressed before. In amazement she saw women with breasts bare, flounced and flaring skirts of varied colours, bright ribbons in black hair coiled and towered upon the tops of their heads. Young men with brief skirts but otherwise bare and gleaming bodies, hair in strange curls, eyes accentuated with black paint. Old men in tunics. She stared and stared, knocked and pushed from side to side every now and again by excited people who were trying to see the sport of the bulls.
Behind one of the barricades was a raised dais and upon it such grand people sat that she was sure they must be Royalty. She had heard of kings and queens, princes and princesses, but never had she seen anything like them before. Ro
