‘My Lord some of our Leading Nobles have made the complaint that the price of slaves has risen a bit too sharply of late.’ The Functionary nervously shuffled his feet. The Leading Nobles were a point of contention with The Young Prefect who very much thought he was in charge.
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On their knees before them knelt The severely beaten Housekeeper and a man she recognised as a Centurion of the Roman Army. A man she had only caught glimpses of when he had stayed at the Farm as the Farmer had hidden her. Up close she was surprised to see The Centurion was handsome; well built with chisseled features. Her husband wasn't ugly his body was trim but his features were plain, she caught herself thinking if her husband was touched by Apollo then surely The Centurion must be touched by Mars.
Read MoreChapter 8 The Healer
He decided to address the elephant on his soul. The one the black dog was plainly barking at; Taking a wife had never been part of his plan.
Read MoreDr When Chapter 2
He was on his fourth or fifth cock, knowing he was near the end of the queue, hoping that after this they'd leave him be, to come to terms with himself, when he noticed a raucous of barking, shouting and determinable sound. As the barks got louder his man pulled out and dived for his discarded kit. The cacophony was full blown now and the scientist got up off his knees in time to hear a roar that hit a sensor in his brain that pumped adrenaline into his blood at levels previously unknown to him. He turned around to see that not far away a fifteen foot grizzly bear seemed to be literally tearing its way through Romans. A pack of dogs were worrying it, nipping at its feet almost steering the bear around the camp.
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The bewildering thing about the time travel was that, as long as you were naked, it didn't hurt. (Someone apparently found out the hard way that the time machine’s sensors couldn't see where skin ended and clothes began). The scientist, for his own reassurance checked himself as best a man could without the aid of a mirror. He laughed out loud when he saw that his tattoos were intact. He had half expected them to fade before his eyes as the course of history changed.
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