But with the hope of salvation and with horror, frankly read in their eyes, they were now looking at me, and personally I would be happy to look at someone else like that, because it’s one thing to rule behind the back of a Caesar or a father, and it’s quite another to suddenly be the sole the ruler of not even one state - several at once! Moreover, in the conditions of a practically declared war with an enemy who is more experienced, ruthless and insidious than me hundreds of times!
Panic began to overwhelm more thoroughly than on the wedding night with Caesar. Then I had practically nothing to lose except my own life and even the girlish honor that was not useful, now ... too much was at stake, and too many lives. And for any of my mistakes, they will have to pay, which means that there
