*Several Months Later, During The Wedding Month of Gamelion*
*Heiro's POV*
"Do you have anything less... sickly?" I asked the farmer as we stood against the rotted wooden fence of the pig enclosure.
He slapped one of the hogs on the haunch through the fence and looked towards me with a nearly toothless grin. "She'll do just fine," the farmer reassured me. "It is Gamelion, after all. Lots of people have already come through and purchased the more prized pigs."
My lips tightened into a thin line. This was the main task that Kyros had asked of me and I was not about to return to the villa with a half starved swine. "I'll take two," I said reluctantly. If nothing else became available, at least we had something to sacrifice.
The well-worn farmer gave me a broken smile as he reached an out
