Rattleskin Redoubt picea

there was a relief in germanicus to hear tactics from his son's addled mouth.

a pained daughter. a mad son. and where had cornelius gone? look what he had done. look how he had left them 

at any moment he knew he might become imperator again. he could take up the sword and shield and assume the role of soldier without thinking.

but he was not prepared to be a father.

"not the canyon then. and the valley as well. that leaves the hinterlands, the taiga, the coastline."

his eyes surveyed the land as he spoke, the flat desert and the round hot sun.