Sometimes there are just those days when you wake up thinking, Why am I here? Why is any of this here? What, exactly, is the justification for the travesty of human existence?!? Good news. This book alone goes a long way toward rationalizing the questionable decision that was the creation of humanity.

Everything here is vitally important. Some highlights:

• Roman to his arrogant finger-tips

• The dagger/shield boss conversation & dialogue between imperialism and independence.

• "In the matter of the Eagle, they were the enemy, an enemy worthy of his steel. He liked and respected them; let them keep the Eagle if they could."

• I am the Centurion's hound, to lie at the Centurion's feet.

• "He had not remembered the girl he had seen with them, because Esca, coming immediately afterward, had been so much more important."