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For Kaeso, it was irritating to have news go around a place so fast but he also knew that people were just that and thrived on whatever little bit of news to make their day worthwhile surviving through each day. He had to admit; the decision to promote a Centurion and then match them with a...

Kaeso smiled, nodding in reply and left her to make her own adjustments before he turned to adjust the stirrups for the saddle on the gelding. It snickered and shifted as he worked. He knew most would not appreciate a forward thinking and independent woman, but he found it refreshing. He was...

Kaeso nodded lightly, happy for them to be considered more as employees over staff even if they didn't really get paid. He supposed he could wing them all a few as or sestertii here and there. It wasn't uncommon for slaves to get money, it was how they saved up for their freedom even though it...

He did know and on some level he fully agreed with her but for Rome to stop having slaves in their current economic climate would mean collapse for many businesses and the effect would ripple across the empire. It just wasn't feasible to get ride of the practice overnight. "Well, there's a...

He could tell Aquila and Markus were not used to this experience of dining with who were effectively their lords and masters of the household but he felt they appreciated the nod to their importance within said household. He doubted he or Valerie would have had it any easier without them to run...

Kaeso smiled not in the least bit surprised when Valerie stepped around him to greet Markus and inquire to his health. The man had taken a nasty falling and beating at Magnus' hands and he doubted either he or Valerie could begrudge the man a few days off to recover. However, he also wasn't...

Markus moved out into the gardens and the fresh air peering at the olace where Magnus had shown his colours to all and had struck him. He hadn't been expecting it quite that hard but he was glad now Aquila seemed more on board with the idea that Magnus was bad news whereas before it had been a...

Colosseum shenanigans indeed he mused with a nod of agreement. He wasn't sure what a 'cocktail hour' was but he could guess that it was some sort from of entertainment or something her people did to take a little steam off like his people might with going to a tavernas. He knew she was trying to...

Walking in blind was one sure way to describe their situation too and something he was a tad more familiar with sometimes given the nature of his rank. Well, his past rank, anyway. That was another, albeit minor, addition to the headache he was having right now. Regardless, he was more or less...

Kaeso frowned gently as she seemed to react in pain despite her words and he carefully loosened his hold to her hand. He often forgot how much more rough his hands were from a lifetime of warfare and hard graft. He knew hers were far softer by comparison, and not for the first time did he hate...

Her voice only spurred him closer all the more. He had made her and himself a promise he vowed to keep and maintain for as long as Valerie was stuck in his world. He didn't even know if she could ever return to the world in which she grew up and understood. He supposed that was either something...

Kaeso's anxiety was rising and you could feel the tension grow more tightly around them all. Everything was telling him to hold on to Valerie more tightly, to pull her behind him and punch this idiot's lights out but he could not do anything. Not without Magnus pulling the first move. He gripped...

(Of course! Plot away >3 :3) Magnus would be an issue and one who might try and make their lives difficult even with the risk of falling out with those that had put this marriage forth. Valerie and himself were caught in the middle of all this. Unable to refuse one nor give in to the other. He...

The sun was something he found comforting but that was just how the climate here was and what he was used to. To him, in reality, it had had only been a week or so now since he had previously been stood in the cold and wet of Britannia. Course, this was not his home. His home was on the coast of...

(No worries. Things have been busy here too.) He blinked when she kept hold of his hand and looked towards her as she spoke, her grasp and voice commanding his attention in a fashion he had not expected before. He inclined his head in return, smiling back in the same way. His expression one of...

It was of no surprise how fleeting Valerie's steps were out of the palace. His own stride matching in haste but not so lightly on the feet. It was hard to do so whilst armoured in so much leather and metal. The sounds of his footfalls were loud and obtrusive, drawing looks of irritation from...

Married life was not something he had given much thought to. He had always thought he would fight and remain in the Legions as the seasoned Centurion as before. It was all he knew, all he really understood. Naturally, he could see women when he wanted, preferably those that were clean if he...

Whilst he effected the calm and at attention stance on the outside, Kaeso was in reality a bag of nervous energy on the inside. He was not sure how well the wording of what he said would be taken. It was clear the Emperor and Valerius had shared a close friendship that stood through a test of...

Not for the first time did he have to squash his nervousness nor try to ignore how small and insignifcant he felt inside the room they were in. He knew it would be worse come the next room but there would be no helping that. This would be the first close up meeting with the Emperor for...

He glanced at her for a brief moment before he looked about the place, taking in its opulence that he would never own in his lifetime. It was grand and designed to both impress and remind the viewer of who lived within its walls. Nothing had been left out. Every little biut of trim had been...