The Crucifixion of Annia
THE CRUCIFIXION OF ANNIA The First Day Annia could not stop trembling. She could hear the soldiers approachingthe locked door to the room where she sat huddled in the arms of her supervisor,Tertia. The older woman, head mistress of the household slaves, tried to comforther, stroking her head, gently hushing her, suppressing her own fear in theface of the unfolding disaster. "What will they do with us?" the frightened girl kept asking. But she already knew the dreadful answer. Even as...