Chapter 74

With her body clean and her mind refreshed after her bath, her sight clear and a head filled with questions Cleopoda walked back into the room where Zenas was still cleaning. He took one look at her from where he was tucking in corners of the black sheets into the side of the bed and retrieved something from the side table. It was a platter of bread and grapes, a thin slice of cheese, and a small jar of water. He passed pressed it into her hands and continued with his work. Stunned, Cleopoda stood there with the platter slightly shaking as she watched him. It was unreal, he was a legend on the stage, she had watched him perform when Strukus has taken her to see him, she had wanted to see him behind the stage where many folks were waiting to talk to him. To have him in the same room with her cleaning like and folding away clothes made her feel uneasy.