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If you want this to make any sense, read chapters 1 through 3 first.

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I had a terrible nightmare. We were at sea again, and I had offended Neptune! The sea was churning and the boat I was on rocked and heaved! There was sea water flying everywhere. I tasted salt. I don’t think I’d ever tasted something in a dream before. The sails and mast blew away and the small ship was tossed like a cork!

A wave the size of the world lifted the boat higher and higher, and it tilted down toward the Kraken! A huge, slimy tentacle wrapped around my arm and a smaller one slipped into my ear! Suction cups and tentacles covered my face! I was suffocating in the slimy beast! Drowning!

I heard a loud bark. I woke and something slimy really was all over my face! I did taste sea water! Suction cups DID stick to me! I screamed in terror, pulling tentacles off myself! Most of the household woke up in the chaos. Two servants ran in carrying candles. They laughed, but tried not to. I finished removing the octopus from my face and saw my dog Tyranus! He happily barked and ran around the room.

He had miraculously survived the ordeal at sea, but dropped an octopus on me in my sleep! I wasn’t sure if I was glad to see him or furious. I led him to the tent where the children slept and he ran to Een and Raya. They cried with happiness and disappeared beneath a mound of fur, as he jumped on them.

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We made it to the markets of Ghent in the early afternoon three days later. The soldiers and servants set up tents, fed the horses and children, and made our camp south of the city before dinner. The city had the biggest market for two hundred leagues. Merchants from distant lands sold spices, fabrics, furs, and other exotic goods. They came from as far as Athens in Greece, Helsinki far to the north, and Dakar in West Africa.

I saw one of Pullo’s favorite Optios selling excess items from the legion. A parrot on the table next to him said, “No, the belt! The belt! Faster!”

The Optio laughed, saying; “The Legatus doesn’t want the parrot meeting his family. Only two denari? Any other parrot will cost you at least five.”

I chuckled with him. “Maybe some other time.”

He told me the army was camped a league east of town. The army bought half the cows in the city, and most of the pigs. There would be a feast tomorrow and they would leave for Rome the next day.

I walked past a merchant selling spices. “Pepper and cinnamon, all the way from Yunnan! I have the only supply in all of Belgica!” I was surprised that the price was only extremely high, instead of absurd. He wanted six gold aureus for a pouch the size of an apple, instead of the ten he charged when I was on the way to Caledonia. Still, it would be cheaper to eat silver instead. Later in Rome, I bought what the cooks needed for a third that price.

I stopped at the slave market and saw nine children for sale, only thirty denari each. I bought them all.