Beyond Night
“I have seen your dreams in the vast ether-realm, smelled your true courage on the wind, and yes, beheld you from afar. I know you are not like them, like the Spartan who plays games in the spirit realm with the arisen Queen Tancorix. I know what you feel and that who you pray to is quite contrary to what your Roman lords love, no?”
“So what does any of that matter? You and these things are out to kill us.”
Drust smirked. “But we all know this. I see from your dreams you recalled a time when your peoples did the same thing to the Romans.”
August trembled, afraid that the wizard had indeed looked inside his dreams, or caused them. “Why am I alive?”
“Rufus, the boy that is your body servant, h
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