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Fire beneath the stone
CHAPTER ONE - THE TWO HOUSES Begin: Pompeii at high summer. We are introduced to the House of Leandros - Roman with ties to Alexandria - and the House of Isis - Issa's family, Greek-Egyptian with ties to Rome. Both prominent, both in the…
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…She handed him the scroll. He read it, his expression darkening. "They knew," she said. "The commission—some of them knew about the warnings. And they did nothing." "Or they profited from the silence." She looked at him. "We cannot surrender the documents. Not to them." "Then we do not." "But if we refuse—" "We do not refuse yet. We wait. We gather more evidence. We let the prefect's envoy speak." "And if the commission decides before she arrives?" Leandros looked at the scroll, then at her. "Then we fight." Issa nodded. The fear was still there, but it had settled into something harder—something she could hold onto. "Together," she said. "Together."