“He watches the prisoner line with the wide-eyed attention of a young man trying to understand the world. He is learning.”
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Marcus Herennius Lurco was born in Latium, a region of rolling hills and small towns within sight of Rome. His father was a merchant, his mother a shopkeeper, and he grew up with the ambition of becoming a soldier — a serious, respectable role that would give him standing and a future. He enlisted when he was seventeen, driven by stories of the old wars and the promise of adventure. He joined the Tenth at Bibracte. He served in the prisoner line as a junior soldier. He watched the Primus Pilus pause at the red-haired Gaul. He watched him place her. He has been watching her ever since — with curiosity, not with desire, but with a young man's hunger to understand the world. He is the youngest …
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