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The Child

The wind carries a pitiful scream with it, making me quicken my step. Caleb pushes people from blocking our way, there’s an elderly woman who almost falls due to the impact. Just as I’m about to ask Caleb to be more gentle with the shoving, I halt myself. This is not the time for pleasantries.

There. The boy lies on the ground with a freshly hit red mark on his small arm. The sight ignites anger within me. I turn to look at the man who did this. Isis, lend me strength and tranquilit...

The Shoe

The leather in my shoe was impeccably comfortable. It was elastic, velvety. It hugged my toes with its softness, it didn’t gnaw at my skin when I had to walk to the Forum. No calluses appeared to molest my feet, no blisters vexed me when I wore them.

That shoe is now in Robus’s drooling mouth.

She gives me back the half-eaten boot accompanied with a happy bark, as if she made it somehow better. She looks me in the eyes and smiles that goofy beam only dogs can. There’s not a ...

The Bath

The bath house is nice and quiet. The water might be questionable in its quality, but the men here know not to bother me by now. One or two tried to approach me, thinking I was a courtesan looking for clients. It wasn’t difficult to prove them deadly wrong and after a short and blade-sharp discussion, they ended up scattering like the scared little boys they were.

Tinsae used to wonder why I insisted on bathing here; it’s always a real danger that Gaius would pester me if I stayed a...