Meritorium by Joel Ohman

Author:Joel Ohman [Ohman, Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-25T15:09:02+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Racing Equality

When Charley awoke, back in Ian’s safe house—or, at least, a house as safe as possible for someone who had attempted an assassination of the emperor could be—the first thing he thought about was the lanther. He didn’t regret throwing the javelin at Emperor Titus, and, if given the chance, he would do it again. The emperor deserved to die, but the lanther—Charley was finding that the demarcation between animal and monster was beginning to blur.

As he slowly woke, Charley’s mind worked on overdrive to resolve the morning’s questions: What was the difference between an animal and a monster? Or even a man and a monster, for that matter? The lanther, at first nothing to Charley but a monster to be vanquished, had morphed within mere minutes into simply an animal that he could ride. Dangerous? Yes. A monster? He wasn’t so sure. And as for the difference between a man and a monster—he needed only to look into the crafty eyes of Emperor Titus, watching placidly as little children were sentenced to death by wild beasts, to now know for certain that the most dangerous monsters in the amphitheater weren’t crawling, biting, and roaring in the arena.

They were sitting in the stands.

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