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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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…That night, the courtyard of Leandros’s house was a pool of cool shadow, the air still heavy but touched by the first, faint stirrings of a breeze. The two fathers stood beneath the star-dusted sky, the weight of their ignored pleas pressing down on them. Leandros, a boy on the cusp of understanding the world’s complexities, watched them from the peristyle, his young heart heavy with a premonition he couldn’t yet articulate. "They will not listen," Issa’s father said, his voice a low, defeated rumble. "They refuse to see. We will have to make our own plan." The words hung in the night air, a stark admission of their isolation and a grim promise of the difficult path ahead.