Chapter 9
The CurseIn Aquae Sulis the work on the colossal statue of Claudius began at last — the Egyptian doing no more at first than supervising his apprentices, reserving his own skills for the fine work later on.
Megan, learning that he was away buying tools in Corinium one day, decided to visit the workyard and try to persuade the workmen themselves to sabotage the project.
“One hard blow in the wrong place will surely break the block open and render it useless,” she suggested, after she had been speaking for some time on the reasons why they should resent having such a statue in their town.
But the implications of their work did not interest the men. It was work for which they were well paid and involved a skill they were proud to learn from a master they respected. Nothing Megan
