Chapter 8
Chapter 8: Alexandria
The family arrives in Alexandria by ship, exhausted and ash-stained. A refugee ship brings news that Pompeii is completely destroyed. After two days of respite, a Roman messenger summons their parents to court within two days to answer for leaving.
The ship made landfall at first light.
Issa stood at the rail, her hands gripping the salt-worn wood. The harbor of Alexandria spread before her, wide and blue, the water lapping against stone quays lined with merchants and fishermen. The Pharos lighthouse rose in the haze to the west, its white stone catching the first rays of the sun. She had seen it in drawings, heard it described in the old texts, but she had never imagined it would look so solid, so permanent.
Behind her, the sea was empty. No column of smoke. No distant roar. Just water, stretching to the horizon.
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