Chapter 64
The Empire was growing. After several years of campaigning and the taking of small towns and cities, the New Roman Empire spread over three complete floors.
Even some of the jungle had been subdued. Street bosses had been killed or bundled out and escorted down many many levels before being left to fend for themselves while their Clansmen had been incorporated into the swelling ranks.
Sometimes Smitty - now called ‘Commander Smith’ - wondered what they would do when the three levels were entirely under their control. ‘Three levels’ was anyway an arbitrary figure. It might as well be four or five or even - and Smitty wouldn’t put it past Octavia’s vaunting ambition - the whole of V-CityB.
But now, right now, they were marching - he, Octavia and thirty well armed and trained C
