More than anything, Boudicca wanted to be free of the whole lot of them. Lovernios sought to offer some comfort, but she could tell he felt too ashamed for persuading her to take part in the ritual that had sacrificed Grania. For her part, she felt too tired and too exhausted to lay blame upon anyone. Wherever Grania was now, it was almost certainly better than the living hell her daughter had become ensnared in before her death. Boudicca wished she had the energy to convince Lovernios not to put up needless barriers between the two of them. After all, she knew she could live more comfortably with the knowledge of what she’d done if only she had his support.
Just as soon as all of this was over, she promised herself, she would take herself and Lovernios off to the forests. She would not h
