Decimus did not see this. He was already miles away, walking north along the river road, his armor abandoned in a ditch. He did not know where he was going. He only knew that he could no longer hold a spear.
The magistrate nodded to the executioner. Martyr Or The Death Of Saint Eulalia 2005l
Not the smile of a saint in a mosaic. Not serene. It was the smile of a child who has just remembered a secret: They cannot reach the part of me that is already gone. Decimus did not see this
Behind him, the sky broke open.