“I never would have thought that -”
“What, my love?” Adara asked.
But Lucius’ attention had been torn away from the crowd to a black shadow down the road. He turned to Barta behind him.
“Black cloak down the way. He just went in between those two buildings.”
“I saw him, Praefectus,” Barta said, stepping forward and motioning for two more Sarmatians to follow him.
“What is it?” Adara asked, more urgently this time. “Lucius?”
He was still staring in the direction of the man he had seen, his eyes following Barta and the other two. He was about to go after them when he heard loud voices behind him, one of them Culhwch’s.
“We’re not breaking any laws, Decurion!” Culhwch said, his voice angrier than it ever had been since Lucius had known him.
“Isn’t that Serenus Crescens?” Adara asked L
