The Druid King
“said Tulius, “but Vercingetorix’s army is arriving already.”“Excellent,” said Caesar, in high spirits despite the reduction in the ration to one handful of gruel a day.“What’s so excellent about it?” asked Labienus. “It means he’ll have time to bring his army into Bourges before we can catch him outside the walls. It means a siege.”“Exactly,” said Caesar.Caesar, Labienus, Tulius, and Gallius sat outside Caesar’s tent, slurping down their meager share of the tasteless slop in full view of the surrounding troops. It seemed more watery today, and more noticeably tinged with green from the added grass.Dionysus protect me! Caesar thought. I’m beginning to become a connoisseur of this stuff! His rumbling gut, however, was not in agreement. Patience, he told it as he licked the last of the gruel off his spoon, soon you will eat your fill.“You want a siege?” Labienus said in no little perplexity.“Why attack a pack of wolves in the process of entering a trap?”
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