Chapter 2
The Queen ‘Honours’ ThylossThe following morning the Queen summoned Thyloss to the palace.
She was not in the megaron, where she usually gave audience, but was in one of her private apartments.
As he climbed the stairs to the upper floor and followed one of her women attendants through the narrow and labyrinthine passages to her rooms, he was nervous. Had she heard about the fight of the bulls? In a close community such as theirs it would not have taken long for reports of such an unusual event to reach her ears.
She was in her day room, the screens that kept the weather out in winter were drawn back and almost the whole side of the room was open to the free-flowing air and a view of the distant sea. The plants that grew so profusely in pots between the columns stirred gently
