00:00Your life was forefoot upon Vesuvius, taken by one to whom you have done grave injustice.
00:17And I will hear you kneel, joining your domina and her child among the dead in the underworld.
00:23At what measure of a man stood you when heart beat within chest?
00:27A Syrian, despised by all, a slave to my husband Batiatus, a gladiator, ever so briefly upon the sands of the arena, elevated to trusted conspirator, valued for your gifts of cunning and deceit.
00:49And when the house of Batiatus fell to the mad Thracian Spartacus and his rebels,
00:56You turned against your brothers, aiding Roman masters in attempt to bring rebellious slaves to heal.
01:09And yet you had already fallen well in advance of Spartacus, being struck from the world of the living by Roman's fear.
01:20Yet the fates weave many threads.
01:23Your untimely passing was but single part of what might have been.
01:26Your desire to bear witness to another, a new reality, uncoupled from history, where you did not perish upon Vesuvius, where instead you aligned with mighty Crassus, the richest man in all the republic, and his dog of war, Gaius Julius Caesar.
01:46A path where you hurled fatal spear that claimed the life of Spartacus, and in the act saved Crassus, who rewards you with patronage and all that once belonged to my noble husband.
02:04Embrace the path the gods have set you upon.
02:06Do you desire to know where that fate would have led?
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