“My God! And no one noticed him?”
“No. Caesar was excellent at many things, even at impersonating another man. So, when he met Bachelet’s wife, and she asked his name, he gave her mine.”
How much bitterness in his voice! Many centuries on, there was so much disappointment he simply couldn’t set aside in a corner of his mind and forget.
“What did you do when you found out?”
“The only decent choice I had was to abandon him to his fate. Then and there it seemed a hazard, considering what he had been able to do, but I finally preferred following the advice of my true friends. From that day on, we all turned our backs on Caesar. We continued to be Legionaries of the Tenth Legion, of course, but away from him. At first, it seemed to work. The enormity of crimes he committed was reported in R
