The air was still cool and damp, and it reminded him of home. If he closed his eyes, he could imagine he sat in the gardens at his father’s Hampshire estate. He could pretend he was still a boy, with no cares beyond avoiding his tutor as long as he could manage it and devising a new trick to play...
Some vague impressions of running free through the forests of Germania, but that was all. He had lived through only thirteen winters when the Romans came to his land and captured his tribe. He remembered the fear that snaked through the trees, the courage that the warriors called upon to face it,...
He had been here since morning was only a promise on the horizon, but soon all of Susa would rise. “Enough for this morning. I need to get home.”His three friends all released tired breaths and stretched. Adam groaned. “You are more a slavedriver than Pharaoh of old. You fight as though the Greek...