Episode 11.1.b
>Alexandria, Aegyptus, 80 CE<
The crowd takes you in the moment you step through the door. The taberna is a small place, and it is packed: Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, all of them talking and laughing and drinking at once. After the glare of the street the room is nearly dark, and for a while you can make out almost nothing.
Then your eyes adjust, and in the far corner you see a man filling cups from a jug of wine. It is Euphorbus.
He looks up and sees you, and for a heartbeat he does not believe it. Then he sets the jug down and pushes his way through the crowd, grinning all the way.
"Recentii! Well met!" he says. "It does me good to see you. But what are you doing here? What brings you to Alexandria?"
At the same moment you become aware of a second man at your side. He is the image of Sextus and of Septimus: the same face, the same light about him, though in this dim room the light is very faint.
This new Aemilianus leans close and speaks into your ear. "Carefully. We don't know who is listening."
Prompt: Find out who is in the taberna, and what they might know about the politics and the culture that surround the Lapis.
