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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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…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."