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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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…Leandros put a hand on her arm. "We will file the motion." Varius nodded. "I will inform the commission. You will receive a summons by sundown." He turned and left, the lictors falling in behind him. Issa watched him go, her hands shaking. "Three days." "It gives us time." "Or it gives Gaius Valerius time to stop the envoy." Leandros took her hand. "Then we make sure he does not." She looked at him, and the fear in her chest settled into something steadier. "How?" "We go to Ostia ourselves. We meet the envoy on the road. We bring her to the temple ourselves." "And if Valerius has men watching?" "Then we find a way through." Issa squeezed his hand. "When do we leave?" "Now."