Chapter Fourteen
“My girls!” Tibullus exclaimed. “It’s my two slave girls!” he explained to the others. To the girls he said, “So they’ve brought you to join me?”
But even as he spoke, he detected that they hadn’t been brought here as captives.
“Luxor!” Tibullus addressed Luxor because she was the nearer. “What’s happening?”
But was it really Drusilla and Luxor? It was their faces and their figures, their bearing even, but something was utterly different. It was as if imposters were inside their bodies.
“Yes, that’s him,” Luxor said to her companions. “Take him to the compound.”
Tibullus was too stunned to speak, or even feel afraid, as he was hauled to his feet and taken outside.
He was taken back to the military station, which was now under rebel control. There he found he was wit
