Chapter 6
The Journey Begins
Driven by the Roman text, Valerio prepares for a perilous journey to North Africa, seeking tangible proof of ancient agricultural advancements.
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The parchment, brittle as autumn leaves, crackled under Valerio’s trembling fingers. It was more than ink on vellum; it was a whisper from a forgotten age, a secret shared across millennia. The Roman scribe, his name lost to the dust of empires, had spoken of irrigation channels that snaked through arid lands like veins of life
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