Lucretia laughed, underwater her fingertips scraped against the wall to release hidden agitation. The comment was amusing, even if attacking her moderate interest at him in a general way. "Everyone examines a new slave that way." Her curiosity still bubbled beneath in the humored gaze she cast...
Eppia most certainly lowered her gaze, pretending to be about arranging Lucretia's clothes on a shelf in preparation to watch over them. She knew her mistress would leave her in this room to simply protect her belongings from being stolen. And really, she was rather uncomfortable, regardless of...
What a way of a man to be taken with a rare creature with little more to know of her than name and status! Many women were exotic. This was Rome. Why, she even considered herself exotic. Hmph. Lucretia was not too dumb to notice the lingering gaze of that vagrant upon her servant. A gaze more...
The gods had come through. A flash of excitement in recognition sparked Lucretia's hazel eyes, as they landed upon Quintus Aemilius Livianus. That was his name, it came to mind the instant she saw him. His energy was that of a cat slinking between the feet of Roman legionnaires after losing a...
In that sprawling flash of oranges and flurried gatherings, he simply raptured. Oh, he had practiced that one. A derisive mixture of curiosity and disappointment wondered after him those next moments. Lucretia's hands had practically gone white in her desperation to hold him, and the strength...
One final cursory gaze over him, one more memorization of his person. Just in case any ideas of not coming back to her did manifest in his mind, which had already proven itself ambitious in charmcraft. She could still likely hunt him down, his appearance wasn't exactly helping him blend in...
He was right about misunderstanding; most of it clouded him! Except for when he called her Domina. That rang in her ears nicely. Did some delusion leave him to think she would let him go just because he dropped the coins and didn't technically steal them yet? Her stance had widened, bracing in...
He'd first swiped into her even though he was practically making eye contact. Although Lucretia had observed that to be a common occurrence here, nobody had dared come near her. What was odd was that he was in no hurry, while the rest of the crowd began to crackle the air with frenzied anxiety...
Dirt packed stone pavers did little to prevent dust from becoming a constant companion traveling through the Termini district market stalls. Grandious Roman architecture provided a salve to the senses of sight in a place where one wished their sense of smell would be taken by the gods...