I shall address you further nearer the time but I expect you to remain utterly silent about this without these walls, to assist in the preparations an... ensure the success of the day for our most illustrious guest. This is an honour for us all and we must make every effort.’ The ensuing days were a flurry of activity. We all set to to re-open the ballroom, remove dustsheets and clean. The ballroom was not a vast space but big enough for the entertainment of the 40 or so people who would be in. "Why does Uncle Dean live here?" This is a prison. It's where they keep bad men." Is Uncle Dean a bad man?" Pretty much," chuckled my mom.I pointed at a smaller structure two blocks away. "What's that?"?"That's the women's facility. Where they keep all the bad women..."It was just as forbidding, surrounded by the same high fences cappedwith razor-wire, but it was dinky in comparison, maybe three storiestall and covering less ground. I looked at the one building, then theother. The difference. The man worked hard to further my aims especially when they improved life for the Romans.Mamercus was running a fever but I didn't think it as hot as it could be. I bathed his body to keep him cool and then got some of his elderly relatives to do this too.I taught more medicine to Publia while the rest listened to my words. To give examples I asked her to get her younger siblings. We both went over them looking for abnormalities. The children liked the attention because I made a game of. My job wasn't just to rape this beautiful girl, but to fillher with such shame and self-loathing, to shred any sense of self she had, thatshe would be easy prey for her stepfather. I could feel herapprehension and her fear grow as I shut the door behind us. I pushed herdown on her bed roughly, sheathing my knife as she quickly turned, perched onthe edge of her bed, her body trembling, her arms across her chest, grippingher shoulders, her lips quivering. "Co-operateand you'll be fine; don't,.