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“So… the lost tower, eh? What’s there to share? People make too big a deal about it”

“Where have you been?” someone passing by shouted. “What kind of sons leave their elderly father to die alone?”

“Well?” Decimus rolled his eyes. “Should I be excited? Or will you just be wasting my time?”

He gasped in surprise. There was nothing in the chest except a large sheave of grey and green stalks

“Come now, you fearful things, don’t look so terrorized. Did I say I would be dismissing anyone today?”

Such were the games of the Roman political system. Lies, not truth, triumphed