He stepped lightly across the narrow edge of the proscenium that separated the entertainers from the Romans who gorged on fattened lamb, roast pig, and wine. Eunus was a foreigner in this land, having been chained and dragged here from his homeland to work in the Romans’ quarry. On this particular evening, like many before it, he was made to play a jester, a chattering fool with a mouth full of rhymes and falsehoods, to bring laughter to the lazy leaders who had taken control of Enna many years before.
Eunus stood taller than most of the foreigners who controlled this town and others across Trinacrium. Because of this, he inspired awe in some, but most of the Roman legions considered him nothing more than a tall clown, a simpleton who spouted nonsense in exchange for a leftover hamhock at
