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this Ursinus performs.”
     
    “He’d better perform well…” my father muttered. “For what I paid for him.”
     
    “I’m sure he’ll perform better than you ever could have imagined…” I murmured, slightly dreamily. “After all, he is an amazing physical… specimen.”
     
    My father and Quintus both looked at me oddly and I found myself blushing.
     
    “That is to say, he’s quite the beast. I imagine he’ll tear apart those sickly Levantine slaves and fighters the your rivals insist on sullying the coliseum with.”
     
    My father grinned. This was the kind of talk he liked—anything that criticized or critiqued the fighting habits of his friends and rivals among the other prominent nobles and civic leaders of Rome, for whom fighting humans in a ring like dogs or cocks was the only notable diversion besides whoring with poor downtrodden girls like Lephora and Claudia.
     
    “Quintus, you ought to come as well. You should start learning how to pick a slave for fighting; how these things work… It’s a noble diversion. It’s good for the state and it’s good for the family’s reputation.”
     
    Quintus paled. He abhorred violence in all its form but he knew he had no choice but to obey father.
     
    “Of course, father…” he murmured with a sigh. “I suppose it’s high time I began to learn about these things and take my place as an owner of men…”
     
    Our father saw no irony in his words. He laughed and pounded the table with a single, powerful fist.
     
    “That’s right! It’s the duty of a good Roman man to direct those around him—his family, his city, his state…”
     
    “Yes, father. Whatever you say,” Quintus said, shooting me a sad look.
     
    We finished our meal in silence, my father too occupied by a half-naked slave girl brought out to play the lyre with the slave boys, while I was much too occupied with my worries over Ursinus and, if truth be told… A desire to see him fight. If only I could be assured that he would win. If only I knew that there was no danger, if only I could be assured that he would still live at the end of the day and that I could welcome him into my bed once more…
     
    Quintus’s face had darkened substantially ever since the subject of the fights had been broached and when my father finally departed the table, I saw the tears well up in his eyes.
     
    “Abeba, I don’t want to go to the fights. I don’t want to see those beautiful men hurt each other just to amuse brutes like father…”
     
    “I know, Quintus, dear, I know… But we have no choice… That’s just how it is,” I said, taking his small, delicate hand.
     
    “I don’t want to see everyone try to kill poor Ursinus. What has he ever done to anyone here?” Quintus cried. I winced when I heard the name.
     
    “I must tell you a secret, dear brother,” I whispered, dropping my voice. “And you must promise that you’ll tell no one. It is the most important thing I could possibly tell you.”
     
    Quintus’s eyes widened and he leaned his head close to me.
     
    “What? What is it? Tell me! I love secrets!”
     
    The tears in his eyes had already disappeared. I bit my lip and smiled.
     
    “Ursinus, the man bear… He came to me last night.”
     
    “He… He came to you?”
     
    “Yes… he came to me in the night and we made love.”
     
    Quintus gasped and I had to shush him.
     
    “But… But… Sister! Your virtue!”
     
    “Oh, damn my virtue! Damn it all to hell. What do I care about my virtue? Quintus, it was magnificent!”
     
    Now it was my brother’s turn to bite his lip.
     
    “Tell me about it…”
     
    “Quintus, he was amazing… So strong, so powerful, so forceful… I’ve never felt anything like it. I felt like I was dying from pleasure the entire time.”
     
    Quintus closed his eyes, savoring my description.
     
    “To feel him inside of me, pumping, pulsing, driving into me… To feel his desire and then finally take his