Rosewater Oasis Almagest

Nikolaos snorted and shook his head, but he was grinning. I remember the first time I saw a real wound, He began, feeling rather old as he realized how far off that memory was. Couldn't have been more than five months old - during the First Great War, were you in Myros for that? I was too young to fight. Saw this guy getting carried back, half his leg torn off. Crazy shit.

He shot another glance at Eury, stopping near the water to survey the area. Our princess wouldn't stand a chance, Nikolaos remarked dispassionately. Still, he was frowning. We'll have to fix that. Not sure I like the way that Roman looks at us. The rest, he left unspoken: that neither of them were leaders, that Andromache was perhaps an opportunity to shape their own kind of leader, and that Roman rule was in no way acceptable to Nikolaos.