Beyond Night
Porcius chuckled as they walked onward, “The savages couldn’t know what we have in mind. That’s crazy talk.”
Yawning, Lucius quipped, “Hope you are correct.”
“Oh, I am. I hope.”
Rufus returned to the fallen slave boy, gently touching the area broken apart by the tomahawk. “We all die for Rome, be we Celt, Pict or from Ethiopia.”
Due to his skin color, August understood the dead servant as from the Dark Continent, but couldn’t recall his name. “We’ll send others back to help get him.”
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