Episode 6.3: Stabiae and the Eruption

 

Sinistrus ad caelum spectāvit. columna suprā Vesūvium nunc ingēns erat, et ē summō monte saxa ārdentia cadēbant.

 

"hic locus moritur," Sinistrus dīxit. vōx eius nōn erat frīgida.

 

deinde, lēnius: "Caeciliō dīxī: 'discēde.' nōn discēdet."

 

Recentiī nihil dīxērunt. Caecilium in ātriō suō vīderant, inter pecūniam et amīcōs, laetum. Caecilius nōn discēdet.

 

Sinistrus Recentiōs respexit. "mē in Britanniā invenīte," inquit. "nōn est longē. sed tempus breve est."

 

deinde in fūmum abiit, et fūmus post eum clausus est.

 

[TSTT SYSTEM MESSAGE: Error 1298B. CRITICAL. Operative location unknown. Cannot extract. Cannot track. Recommend immediate evacuation: method unavailable. Standby.]

 

Sextus nūntium lēgit et diū nihil dīxit.

 

"nōs extrahere nōn possunt," tandem dīxit. "TSTT nōn labōrat. ergō nōs ipsī..."

 

saxum magnum in forum cecidit. caelum iam nōn caeruleum erat, sed rubrum et ātrum, et āēr calidior fīēbat.

 

"ad lītus!" Sextus clāmāvit. "ad mare! nunc!"

 

et cucurrērunt.

 


 perge.

 

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