Gnaeus had much to say. The enigma that was the sea captain, Caius Septimus, now was a frequent visitor to the home of Felix Graccius. Tertius Julius frequented the Gracci home as well. All seemed to be on edge. Nervous. At all hours of the day and night servants carrying sealed scrolls came and went at a frenzied pace. The whole household seemed to be agitated. But most interestingly the staff of Felix Graccius seemed to be preparing to shut the house down permanently. Laborers, lumbering through the night with large wagons, hefted up heavy looking wooden crates and disappeared into the darkness.
So too the household of Tertius Julius. In fact his small home was almost barren of both artifacts and servants.
"The rats preparing their escape?" Quintus Flavius suggested after Gnaeus fell s
