Chapter 4
Chapter 4
CHAPTER FOUR - THE RUMBLING Begin: Vesuvius begins to rumble. Small quakes. Ash dusting the laundry. Birds leaving. Thalia is introduced - scribe, keeper of records, the one who will save the evacuation routes. End: First big ash plume over the forum. The city panics but does not flee. The families secretly load one cart in the boathouse. Thalia is given letters for Athens and Alexandria. Line: "If we go, we go at dawn."
CHAPTER FOUR - THE RUMBLING
Begin: Vesuvius begins to rumble. Small quakes. Ash dusting the laundry. Birds leaving. Thalia is introduced - scribe, keeper of records, the one who will save the evacuation routes.
End: First big ash plume over the forum. The city panics but does not flee. The families secretly load one cart in the boathouse. Thalia is given letters for Athens and Alexandria. Line: "If we go, we go at dawn."