Foggy Bottom Way [m] el mar

tactician. warrior. imperator.

father.

the girl plucked from death in the wintry countryside that ill-fated night now stood before him, trembling with the malaise of pure hatred. 

beyond them, he heard the scuffling of aquillius and another. germanicus took a step forward, as if to raise a hand of peace to silvertongue.

cornelius between them. valiria at his side. the caeso-redsands, united in force against the common enemy of a woman who stood no physical chance against them.

and it was beautiful and wretched within the man, to look at the honed ferocity of his children, to see both he and ruenna in their lines and their bearing.

to have them here at the culmination of his deepest sin.

germanicus sought the deep pain in the glassblown eyes and met it with his own. did she not think he had suffered all this while for his sin?