The second the guards opened the blocks to the cell gates, he rushed out and started his lap around the grounds. He made three in near-darkness, the sun not yet totally over the walls of the ludus, before picking up the Hell Log. The Hell Log was an old log instituted into the ludus by the doctor...
The crowd in Puteoli—and probably across the Empire—was always hungry for spectacle. Already today they had seen chariot races and an extended lion hunt, as well as a bestiarius fighting a wolf and boar chained to one another. His own fight was not for several more hours, but part of the arena tr...
Ram suspected, also, that she wanted to be married in something that wasn’t her tight jeans and cleavage-baring sweater. Before she left, she kissed him briefly and promised to see him again that afternoon. Contentment, unexpected and briefly unwelcome, washed over him. He did not ever want an ol...
He trained with the women, appropriately celebrating with a lighter practice, not so hard on the discipline. Half of their last few hours of sparring were spent running instead, which was the norm in the ludus for the day after a good showing at the arena. A bad showing at the arena meant trainin...
The crowd in Puteoli—and probably across the Empire—was always hungry for spectacle. Already today they had seen chariot races and an extended lion hunt, as well as a bestiarius fighting a wolf and boar chained to one another. His own fight was not for several more hours, but part of the arena tr...