XIII

When she awoke it was cold and raining. She struggled to gather her wits, and found that she was lying on a grassy mound in front of the building she recognised as the one she and Diana had entered what seemed half a lifetime previously. The time seemed shortly after dawn.

Slowly, she came to herself, and found that she was in one piece, at least physically, with no sign of any wound upon her person. Then she noticed her armour lying a short distance away. Inside it was a brown and rotten skeleton of unguessable age.