The loud thunders woke up Theodora from her sleep. She covered herself with a robe as she walked to the balcony of her chamber, leaving Augustus behind peacefully asleep on the bed.
She tried distracting herself since the afternoon, yet she could not help but feel uneasy. Every time she felt like that, something ominous happened. She could not help but think of it as a sign of another storm marching her way.
She always wondered why she started getting these feelings, these signs of approaching danger since the night she gave birth to her daughter.
Although she was not in a good state at that time, she distinctively recalled some of the incidences of that night even to this day.
More than the labour pain, she panicked because of that uneasy feeling that had aroused in her gut. It told her that something bad was about to happen, but she did not know what.
