Since the fall of the Praetorian Prefect, Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, Caracalla and Geta had run wild. The gossips whispered that the whole of the Britannia campaign had been devised by the emperor as a means of keeping his sons out of trouble in Rome.
Whatever the reason for the war, Alerio told Adara that Caracalla was always training with the men of VIth Legion within the base, or out patrolling along the Wall, meeting the British legions and auxiliary cohorts. If she did not see Caracalla, Lucius certainly would.
One day, the sun made an unexpected appearance over Eburacum, and within half an hour, Perdita and Diana showed up at Adara's door.
"You and the children must come out, Metella," Perdita said, as Diana waited in the litter with her children. "The day is too glorious to be shu
