Theta
“Herakles asked.
I glanced up from the report in my hands. I could count on one hand the days I’d received good news since leaving the city. Today was one of those rare days. Over the past two weeks, my army had shifted from scraping by to being able to store food in preparation for a long campaign. In a month, we’d have the stockpile of food we needed to survive a winter at war.
Today was a good day.
I nodded once.
Herakles smiled, as he did each time I requested the presence of Kyros-Paeon but... refused to allow the god to speak. As little as I wanted to admit it, the physician to the gods was one of the reasons my army had turned a corner. Illnesses and injuries had disappeared. Everyone who should have been actively engaged in daily activities, or preparing for our future, was capable of performing his or her duties. We had reached a point no army in history ever had: our staffing was at one hundred percent.
Even so, I would never trust a parasite like Paeon. He traveled with me whenever I left camp, not to help me if injured, but to prevent him from sweet-talking any more guards into allowing him extra privileges he didn’t deserve.MoreLess
I glanced up from the report in my hands. I could count on one hand the days I’d received good news since leaving the city. Today was one of those rare days. Over the past two weeks, my army had shifted from scraping by to being able to store food in preparation for a long campaign. In a month, we’d have the stockpile of food we needed to survive a winter at war.
Today was a good day.
I nodded once.
Herakles smiled, as he did each time I requested the presence of Kyros-Paeon but... refused to allow the god to speak. As little as I wanted to admit it, the physician to the gods was one of the reasons my army had turned a corner. Illnesses and injuries had disappeared. Everyone who should have been actively engaged in daily activities, or preparing for our future, was capable of performing his or her duties. We had reached a point no army in history ever had: our staffing was at one hundred percent.
Even so, I would never trust a parasite like Paeon. He traveled with me whenever I left camp, not to help me if injured, but to prevent him from sweet-talking any more guards into allowing him extra privileges he didn’t deserve.MoreLess
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