Carefully, she removed her new engagement ring and put it in a dish by the sink, then turned on the shower. She did her business while it warmed up, a...d then stepped inside. She cleaned all the salt and sweat and other things from the previous day from her body. When she went to dress, she found that her boobs were a size bigger than the last time she'd been aware of it, but she had a number of sexy bras in her new size, so it wasn't a problem. She picked the one she liked the best, and found. We were not surprised when they led us to the house of Servius Laellius Lucullus, father of the empress. His wife, the empress’s stepmother Attia (and the empress insisted that she was her stepmother, not her real mother, who had been unceremoniously divorced and replaced with Attia, who was only five years older than Severina), had been conspicuous on the list of those who failed to sacrifice to Emperor Lucius by the initial deadline. She had hurried to make the sacrifice after the execution. "Oh, no. Oh, NO!"Her sobs and tears just kept increasing.I lifted her head to my shoulder and hugged her to me."Oh, Guy," she said through her sobs, "I can't believe it. I just can't believe it."I can see!"I can see!!!"I can see better now out of that eye than I could ever see before. Things aren't in focus, but I can see more than just light and shadows."I saw your face! I saw your FACE!!!" she repeated."Oh, Guy. I know that my vision isn't perfect, but I can deal with fuzzy. I can really deal. Her other assumption, that the most important facet of his duties was to meet every request of a newspaper reporter no matter how trivial, did not help.Eventually, mostly by shouting and threatening, she persuaded 'her' Second Secretary in the Embassy to lend her some men's clothes and she cut her own hair, expecting that she could pass for a man. With her figure that seemed very unlikely to the Embassy staff, but out she went, ignoring all advice, and waltzed up to the Golden Palace demanding.