The Hadrian Enigma - A Forbidden History - Plot & Excerpts
He led Suetonius, Strabon, and Surisca through the silken drapes of Arrian’s capacious apartments situated away from the river’s mosquitoes. No amount of pleading, groveling, or bowing performed by Arrian’s steward would dissuade Clarus from his unannounced sortie into the Bithynian noble’s tented precincts. After passing noisily through several well-appointed chambers loudly calling Senator Flavius Arrianus!, the group burst into an inner apartment to witness the man himself, freshly leapt from his bed and garbed in a minimal sleeping tunic. He was hurriedly unsheathing a gladius short-sword from its scabbard in prompt response to the onslaught of the invaders. As Clarus and Suetonius lunged through its entrance drapes the two inadvertently perceived a fully shrouded figure disappearing equally as speedily beyond drapes at the far side of the chamber. The heady bouquet of a rich perfume charged the air. “What is this, fools?! You enter unannounced!
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