Chapter 17
Sul’s HillAt about this time, the Egyptian had another visit from Megan. Her nightly dreams of the ways he met his death had become so horrific and so persistent that she began to believe that there was no escape from them but by admitting what she had done and asking for his help in combating the spell. Though her attraction to Brendan and her loyalty to his and her grandfather’s cause had not lessened, and she would have killed anyone who opposed her in battle, the ways of torture and death she devised in her nightmares were shameful and degrading to her. She saw herself and her fellow conspirators as “defenders of freedom”, performing courageous deeds for the good of their fellow men, not as monsters outdoing the Romans in callous cruelty.
She hesitated to tell these things
