Rosewater Oasis Ώρα μηδέν

She watched him withdraw to tend his stung pride, and said nothing. Some of the tension went out of her right then, but Andromache would not breathe easily until Faustus was gone from her sight. Her gaze turned to the water.

He meant to deny her birthright; the very title she would have held in Myros with her father's passing. She thought of Thyestes again, and her throat closed with grief. He was a man, and cruel in the ways men were, but all the same she had loved him, and had always known just as surely that he loved her. He had given her all that he could of freedom, power.

And now, it was left to her to take the rest for herself.