Pomona saw many people standing at the entrance to a tunnel, where there was a torch-shaped sculpture.
"What are you looking at?" Severus asked in the hotel. Because of the heat, he was wearing only a shirt.
"I saw quite a lot of people," Pomona said, turning back from the hotel balcony.
"This is a city. Of course there are people everywhere." He said indifferently, "Are we still going to the library today?"
Summer had arrived, and Paris was crowded everywhere, especially the Louvre Museum, which was packed with tourists.
"Of course," Pomona said, leaving the balcony.
Besides "Venus and Adonis," The Golden Ass also told such a story.
There was a woman named Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite, who lived in a lighthouse by the Dardanelles. On the other side of the strait lived a young prince of Abydos named Leander. One day, Leander met Hero at a festival. It was love at first sight, and they both fell deeply in love.
Leander swam across the strait every day to meet Hero in secret, while Hero lit the lighthouse each day to guide him. But on a stormy night, Hero's light was extinguished by the wind. Leander lost his way and drowned in the turbulent sea. Upon learning of her lover's death, Hero was overcome with grief. She threw herself from the lighthouse and died for love.
In 1854, Tsar Nicolas I declared an advance into the Danube provinces controlled by the Ottoman Turks, while strengthening the naval base on the Crimean Peninsula. This would allow the Russian fleet to directly threaten Constantinople from there, then project its power into the Mediterranean.
Britain had always regarded the Mediterranean as its own inner sea, so it resolved to go to war with Russia. At first, the Cabinet had considered