And the dagger fell to the floor
She has lived for forty-six years and it was a life of leisure and luxury. She had been happy with her husband, a feat even rarer than her longevity, or the fact that six of the nine children she bore for him survived.
Now, her husband was long dead, her children and her dying - her and Nero in exile, Drusus in prison, and Caligula in the house of the one who allowed it all to happen.
Tiberius.