Chapter 17 is up. I think I’m getting better at characterization and “filler”–aka memories, histories, interwoven explanations, and other things that help pace out the action. Mystery, assault, unknown assailants! Welcome to the first threads of a greater tapestry.

The design of the Guard’s legionary camp is modeled almost directly from a Roman legion’s consular encampment, sometimes called a “simple camp” from the time before Caesar and the rise of the cohort divisions within a legion, which required a different camp design. The length of a consular camp (two legions) was 2,017 Roman feet [...]

Allen is getting himself in trouble, slowly but surely. Or maybe more surely than slowly. You’ll have to wait and see what comes of it all.