Brutus Iulius Trois Page 02

Brutus Iulius Trois page 02 Where Trojans are there will be Troy In Hesperia the elder cousins the new Dardanoi the sons of Silvanus Dardanus shall inherit and Lavinia's bloodline shall dwindle down caught by a curse not even Anna Perenna can protect as the very last drops are given to wolves Thus purified the Dardanoi become a great nation As for the house of Ascanius and the true Trojans Two bright stars that flame and fall Troy is lost, Trojans are lost a matricide, a patricide an orphan child shall escape his curse and rescue Creusa who cries all alone in Troy's ruins Where Trojans are there will be Troy Ascanius did not weep or cry in anger Ascanius did not try to stop what was to come doing such things had never helped his father Aeneas Ascanius placed his faith in older prophecies made and his trust in the protection of grandmother Venus with peaceful prayers sent he pleas to the Parcae Nona spin your finest threads for my son. Decima give him a full cup of life leave him not wanting Morta keep your knife idle until after my time. Ascanius paid the Auger in silver coin one eyed Merlinius bowed and left To his soldiers Ascanius said slay me this soothsayer but the mage Merlinius staged his own suicide drinking a draft of false death disappearing some said into the west Silent stayed Ascanius, keeping secret his son's fate In time Silvanus Trois inherited his fathers crown and wedded Julia Dardanus his close cousin tying the Trojan grafts tighter to their newly Latin roots. Julia Dardanus died in birthing a beautiful son she breathed her last even as he breathed his first. In sorrow Silvanus lifted his son aloft to show the courtiers as he hefted the babe, he named his heavy burden Brutus. In true Trojan fashion Ascanius had raised Silvanus his son In such fashion Silvanus in turn raised Brutus Iulius Trois