Agrippa pulled on his toga without the help of the young man who had spent the last few weeks training to take on the role of his personal attendant. It hadn't been his idea. Annia had insisted on it over and over again in what she must have thought were her sly ways, but her methods had been less than subtle, and he had no interest in letting the woman take the position herself.
So in order to quiet her, he had picked at random one of the young men present at the time and offered it to him on the spot, and while Annia promptly suffered from minor convulsions, the decision was final.
So these days, his attendant often stayed in the study and waited for Agrippa to call him over for something, which rarely ever happened because no one could get it right quite the way Julia had. Her finger
